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The Commission for Universities and Research will present before the end of the year a plan to promote the studies of engineering and experimental sciences with the aim of increasing the interest of the students for these degrees, which are among the least Bidding, despite there being a great social demand for graduates.
This was announced by the Commissioner for Universities and Research, Blanca Palmada, at the meeting of the executive council, where she appeared to explain the main lines of the department for the next academic year, which will receive the official start on Friday. at the Rovira i Virgili University.
The commissioner has initiated contacts with the Engineers' Associations for the design of the initiative, which includes a range of activities to be carried out both in the primary (promotion of experiments between students 9 and 10 years old) and the Compulsory secondary education and the baccalaureate, with the close collaboration of the Department of Education.
Regarding the degrees in which the supply of places is lower than the demand, such as nursing and teaching, the commissioner commits, as in the case of medicine, to increase the number of public places for the 2008 academic year -09.
With regard to the elaboration of the new degree map, the commissioner will officially give the directors on October 5th at the plenary meeting of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia the guidelines to prepare their offer of titles. The government insists that the proposals, which can be elaborated with much more autonomy than to date, must be adjusted to "social and labor demand, territorial balance and diversification" and that will have to include accreditation of competences in a third language (mainly English) by the students, and the realization of a period of practices in a company, which can be public or private.
The commissioner will ask universities to explore the possibilities of grouping different degrees in the same field and promoting shared qualifications, and avoiding that the same offer coincides with many faculties. Likewise, it will be required that the new studies incorporate "flexibility mechanisms" in order to adapt to the changes in demand over time.
The universities and the counseling will have to work against the clock, since the deadline set by the Ministry of Education to receive the new curricula ends on January 30.
Source: USTEC · STEs
This was announced by the Commissioner for Universities and Research, Blanca Palmada, at the meeting of the executive council, where she appeared to explain the main lines of the department for the next academic year, which will receive the official start on Friday. at the Rovira i Virgili University.
The commissioner has initiated contacts with the Engineers' Associations for the design of the initiative, which includes a range of activities to be carried out both in the primary (promotion of experiments between students 9 and 10 years old) and the Compulsory secondary education and the baccalaureate, with the close collaboration of the Department of Education.
Regarding the degrees in which the supply of places is lower than the demand, such as nursing and teaching, the commissioner commits, as in the case of medicine, to increase the number of public places for the 2008 academic year -09.
With regard to the elaboration of the new degree map, the commissioner will officially give the directors on October 5th at the plenary meeting of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia the guidelines to prepare their offer of titles. The government insists that the proposals, which can be elaborated with much more autonomy than to date, must be adjusted to "social and labor demand, territorial balance and diversification" and that will have to include accreditation of competences in a third language (mainly English) by the students, and the realization of a period of practices in a company, which can be public or private.
The commissioner will ask universities to explore the possibilities of grouping different degrees in the same field and promoting shared qualifications, and avoiding that the same offer coincides with many faculties. Likewise, it will be required that the new studies incorporate "flexibility mechanisms" in order to adapt to the changes in demand over time.
The universities and the counseling will have to work against the clock, since the deadline set by the Ministry of Education to receive the new curricula ends on January 30.
Source: USTEC · STEs