The Ministry of Education and FP has communicated this morning to the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue) the suspension of the approval of the processing of the new selectivity that should enter into force in June 2024.
In this way, it will be the new government that emerges from the polls that processes the Royal Decree in accordance with the Lomloe, whose draft has already been drawn up, after various adjustments, and which was going to be approved soon so that educational centers and high school students (especially those who are now in 1st year knew how the tests were going to be).
Ministry sources have stressed that the process “is paralyzed, but it is not postponed” the design of the new model for access to the university since the new educational law, the Celaá law, requires an adequate test of the new curricula that have begun to be be implemented in the second year after entering into force.
The rectors had demanded the one-year postponement of the test, applying it in 2025, and today they have insisted on this proposal again, but the ministry has exposed the impossibility of doing so due to the deadlines determined by the law itself.
The ministry’s model respects the regional powers in preparing the test, while the Popular Party defends a single design for the entire Spanish territory.
However, the time to approve the new selectivity model was already fair with current times, and after undergoing various adjustments since the ministry presented it in July of last year. Now, with the elections of a new Executive and the formation of the Government that may arrive in mid-August, the processing of the royal decree will be urgent so that teachers and students can start the course knowing the new format.
Among the novelties of the new Ebau, the competency model of the exams and less memory, as well as the reduction of preparation time, which went from 105 minutes instead of the current 90, stand out. The maturity test, also included in the law, was deferred to several years.
The result of this test represents 40% of the mark for university access, while the Bachillerato average is the remaining 60%.
