The spokesperson for Education and deputy for Lanzarote of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Marcos Hernández Guillén, denounced in the parliamentary commission for Universities, Science, Innovation and Culture the lack of substitute teachers in the Nursing Degree in Lanzarote, and has warned of the "serious consequences" that this situation is generating in the training of the island's students.
Hernández echoes the claims of the Nursing students, especially those in the second year of the Degree, who denounced at the beginning of the year the lack of teachers in key subjects for several months. "The students agree that they have experienced a desperate and very difficult situation, because this seriously affects both their training and the quality of education they receive," he says.
In this sense, he explains that there is a group of around 40 students who started their internships in different hospitals in Lanzarote at the end of February, and who have since suffered an "important uncertainty" due to the absence of substitute teachers to cover the absences that occur and what this entails.
According to Hernández, "the students have been suffering this situation since the first year, when subjects that had to be taught in a semester were taught in a short time or online, such as English, and that this problem also affects other courses".
"The students have denounced on several occasions that the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) washes its hands of this matter, so they are forced to fend for themselves, and they are aware that there are nurses willing to teach, but they are not hired by the university," he says.
For the socialist deputy, it cannot be tolerated that future health professionals "do not have adequate training to be able to care for and care for patients as they deserve, because this training gap means that basic and important things are not being taught".
Hernández secured a commitment in the parliamentary commission from the Ministry of Universities to "improve the salary conditions and incorporate more resources to the Nursing professionals who teach classes at the School, and that the time dedicated to the preparation of content is also computed".
