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The Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats He presented the latest draft of the Law on Universities at a press conference, which was already approved in the first round by the Council of Ministers.
This occurred when the minister was
Manuel Castellswho resigned last year. The text introduces several changes although Subirats has insisted that the rule follows the path of its predecessor.
The most notorious novelties with respect to the last draft, advanced by ABC, is that in the conditions to be rector (civil servants or doctors) the conditions of having a minimum of three six-year terms, three five-year terms of teaching and four years of experience disappear and instead appears a series ofresearch merits” Y “University management experience in a single-person position determined by the Statutes«.
Another novelty appears in the section dedicated to the teaching function. It is now established that students will have, which is a change from the previous text, a «binding participation in the entire process of creating study plans and teaching guides, as well as in its implementation process”, points out the new text disseminated to all the media and sectors involved. The teaching guides are the ones that define topics and exams. Subirats, asked by ABC, said that this will be negotiated and that understanding that “binding” is that they will decide the exams “would be an abusive interpretation of the word binding».
equality units
On the other hand, equality units should be mandatory. Also those of “diversity, university advocacy and service inspection, as well as health services and psycho-pedagogical support and professional guidance services, endowed with sufficient human and economic resources”
At a press conference to present the draft, the minister outlined the general lines of the regulation and said that “we have to overcome the idea that you are going to dedicate your whole life to what you have studied, the level of training will continue throughout life. Right now, 6 percent of university students are over 30 years old, those who do undergraduate and postgraduate studies, and we have to reach as much of the population as possible. We also have the rest of the digitization that was seen with the pandemic“Subirats said.
«The need to open science, citizen science as elements of updating is incorporated. We also have the problem of the aging of the university. More than half of permanent teachers will enter retirement age in the next eight years. Young people must be incorporated and the stabilization process must not be eternal and all this is impossible if we do not improve public financing,” added the minister.
On the subject, he said «that the level of financing of 2009 has not been recovered. It is obvious that a law that wants to be ambitious either manages to improve financing or we are asking for impossible things. This means reaching 1 percent of GDP from public funding. This is also in Lomloe when she talks about the 5 percent dedicated to education».
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism