A group of students from Catamarca and other advanced provinces of the Medicine career at the National University of La Rioja (UNLaR) requested the institution, formally and also through social networks, to take the last exams of the race in a virtual way so that they can begin to carry out the Compulsory Final Practice (PFO) or Annual Rotary Internship (IAR).
The complaint is made because the UNLaR decided to suspend the exam tables during the duration of the pandemic because they consider that there is technological inequality in the students.
We are advanced students of the National University of La Rioja, Medicine degree, we take all the subjects and we want to take the final to be able to do the practices (PFO-Rotatorio). We are stuck, wasting time and, in many cases, our parents with a lot of sacrifice paying pointless rents. We have a deadline to do the practices (08/01/20) but for this we first have to approve the finals, if not, wait until February of the year 2021. Since we only have 2 opportunities a year (and we already missed the May shift and July). It is unfair and inadmissible they point out in the note presented to the UNLaR authorities and also disseminated through social networks.
The authorities of the National University of La Rioja robbed us of our right: they do not let us surrender, they rely on incoherent and unfair excuses. They do not want to take final exams with virtual modality because there are students who do not have access to the internet, however the course and the partial exams are compulsory taken virtually. We have meetings with no clear answers and making vague promises. The last solution they gave us is to start a file to ask for exam tables (we have to ask for a note that they grant us our right) while the UNLaR goes into ‘winter break’ until July 19, the catamaran student Roco Rodrguez exposed on Facebook.
While the UNLaR Secretary for Academic Affairs, Miguel Molina, explained that the observations they made from the virtual classes revealed the digital gap between students, since not all students have the same conditions, so the The Superior Council decided to suspend the final exams corresponding to the May and June shifts and that when the conditions are right the Council decides to start the tables in person, he assured.
On the other hand, Molina remarked that “there is no exact date for the return to the classrooms.” Also from the union that gathers the teachers of the UNLaR stated that “the conditions of organization of work are not given, nor are the infrastructure and the problems related to connectivity to take final exams.”
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