Between 2,000 and 5,000 doctors and medical students took to the streets to demand the closure of Clesi, a private school providing training in health careers.
Health professionals expressed their anger on Friday. According to the police or the organizers, between 2,100 and 5,000 demonstrators, according to the police or the organizers, came to pound the streets of Paris to demand the closure of the branches of the Free Center for International Higher Education (Clesi), a private medical school, formerly called “private university center” Fernando. Pessoa.
Several unions, the order of dental surgeons, physiotherapists and student associations protested against private training in health careers which is developing in France and which, according to demonstrators, bypass the official regulated training. For professionals, this is a bypassing of the numerus clausus (the quota of students admitted at the end of the first year of medicine, common to future doctors, dentists and midwives).
Two Clesi centers opened in France, the first in Toulon, in November 2012, and the second in Béziers, in November 2013. They each offer pharmacist, dentist or speech therapist training, for a tuition fee of 6,500 to 9,000 euros per year, to around a hundred students. And this without competition, which is criticized by health professionals who were in the street on Friday. At the end of the course, these establishments issue a Portuguese diploma – they indeed come from the private Portuguese University Fernando-Pessoa, and over the 5 years of study, 3 are spent on the Portuguese campus – valid throughout the Europe.
The Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine, affirmed that she was going to sign, with her counterpart from Higher Education and Research, a decree obliging private educational establishments “to bring themselves into compliance within six months with the law of July 2013 or to close ”. This law obliges establishments providing private medical training to conclude an agreement with a public health establishment or a private health establishment of collective interest (Espic) on the one hand, and a university comprising one of the taught components, d ‘somewhere else. Applied, this law would make it possible to have an overview and control of the teaching provided in these establishments.
A third establishment, the European Higher Institute of Private Education (Iseep), also attached to the private University Fernando-Pessoa, has announced that it wants to set up in Gennevilliers, in the Paris region.
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