Universities are counting on the PAU syllabus to prevent the Valencian government's veto on Catalan and island authors

ValenciaThat in practice the new baccalaureate curriculum is not so decisive and that the veto on Catalan and island authors is partially neutralized. This is what Valencian universities are counting on: they hope that their ability to design the entrance exams (PAU), added to a broad interpretation of some articles of the new educational decree, will allow them to avoid the sidelining of Balearic and Principality writers promoted by the Valencian Ministry of Education. This is how members of the Catalan philology departments explained it to el ARA after the recent meeting with the Director General of Educational Planning of the Generalitat, Ignacio Martínez Arrúe.

The hope of the representatives of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, the Universitat d'Alacant and the Universitat de València comes from both regulations and the dialogue maintained with the regional ministry. In the legislative sphere, they highlight that the royal decree regulating access requirements to higher education determines that the organizing committee of the access test "will be composed of representatives of public universities, the educational administration, and high school teachers from public centers". This is why they are confident that, given the universities' determination to maintain questions about Catalan and island authors in the PAU (University Entrance Exams), high schools will also consider their study necessary to prevent students from having difficulties in passing them.

Along these lines, the same sources explain to el ARA that the Generalitat informed them that the regional ministry will respect the universities' competence to design the PAU. A commitment that the education department has confirmed to el ARA. Regarding whether Education will oppose university entrance exams asking about the work of Catalan or island authors, the Valencian government has been emphatic in assuring that they will respect it and in declaring that theirs is a regulation that "aims to prioritize Valencian authors", but that respects the autonomy of the centers, teachers, and the university.

as a synonym for Catalan. They base this on the definition of the Valencian Language Academy itself, which defines Valencian as a synonym for Catalan. They base this on the definition of the Valencian Language Academy itself, which defines Catalan" as the "Romance language spoken in Catalonia, as well as in the Balearic Islands, the French department of the Eastern Pyrenees, the Principality of Andorra, the eastern strip of Aragon, the Sardinian city of l'Alguer, and the Valencian Community, where it is called Valencian".

Escola Valenciana: "It is a strategy of ideological manipulation"

In parallel with the universities' conversations with the council, the entity Escola Valenciana has made public a document so that any person, entity, or educational center "has a basis for presenting their own amendments to the administration". The entity values the veto of authors from other Catalan-speaking territories as a sign of "policies of de-culturization