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The Council of Ministers approved on October 29 the Royal Decree on the Regulation of University Education published in the BOE on October 30. The College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona (CETIT) supports the position of the Ministry of Education and Science, approved by the University Coordination Commission (CCU), according to which the preparation of university degree guidelines Degree, Master's and Doctorate.
On October 26, the Council of Ministers approved, on the proposal of the Minister of Education and Science, Mercedes Cabrera, the Royal Decree on the Regulation of University Education. This decree is the culmination of the reform to allow the modernization of Spanish universities and position them on an equal footing with respect to the best university systems in the world.
The approved text establishes a more flexible and open structure of higher education, with three levels (Degree, Master's and Doctorate), which allows students to progress without any decision closing the path of their training. Consequently, thanks to this flexibility, university academic performance will be improved. The decree establishes an important innovation for universities because, for the first time in history, they will be responsible for designing and proposing the curricula that they consider most attractive and in accordance with their resources and interests. This facilitates the way towards the specialization of universities and their full adaptation to the needs and training options of their environment. With all this, the new model will allow more effective training of the best professionals and increase the responsiveness of universities to the demands of society.
The Government thus establishes important mechanisms for guaranteeing the quality of higher education. The study plans will be evaluated by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) before its implementation. In addition, all the titles must pass an evaluation every six years to renew the accreditation of their quality. The structure in three levels and the use of European credit will allow the new titles to be comparable with those of the 46 countries that make up the European Higher Education Area. Regarding the students that study in accordance with the system until now in force, the Royal Decree guarantees the total validity of the lessons. Therefore, all students and graduates fully retain their rights for academic or professional purposes.
It should also be noted that the Government has distributed, within its support programs to facilitate universities adapting to this reform, a total of 7 million euros in 2007.
The background to this important step is placed in the working document that was published by the Ministry, under the title of The Organization of University Education in Spain, on September 26, 2006 and which was presented on December 21 of same year in the University Coordination Committee. This commission issued a favorable report that with the ministerial document served as the basis for the process of approval of titles. After a period of analysis and debate on the proposal, in which the CETIT-led body chaired by its Dean Santiago Crivillé has actively participated, the titles adapted to these guidelines supporting the proposals of the General Council of Official Associations of Experts and Industrial Technical Engineers, which will begin to be implemented in the 2008-2009 academic year.
For the first time, the university will have to estimate the expected results of the lessons, on which will be evaluated later. All titles must have a system that allows them to check their correct functioning and dynamically establish the necessary improvement actions. The curricula must have the acquisition of competences at the center of their objectives.
The teaching organization has been carried out under three principles: to adapt the teaching and learning methods to the objective of acquisition of competences on the part of the students, to facilitate the student mobility and its contact with the professional world and to promote the lifelong learning.
Of the points that are contemplated, it should also be noted that the official degrees of the engineering knowledge branch will consist of 240 credits, which include those corresponding to internships, foreign languages and the degree project, between others. These credits are understood as a teaching load that the student must realize but with a more functional and reasonable system that allows a better and more effective participation of the students. These will have more mobility thanks to the flexibility and the university autonomy in the curricular design of the titles.
It should also be emphasized that Master's degrees are focused exclusively on specialization in specific and never-ending subjects, which is what is left for the Degree Engineering. The full attributions are in the Grade. Therefore, the so-called umbrella Master will not be established to avoid having their own guidelines that collect and add the professional privileges of degrees of the previous Degree, except in a very specific case of specific specialization.
With this arrangement, our newest universities will leave our new engineers and skilled, practical and multi-purpose engineers, with a good technical and human training that will cover the needs of the Tarragona, Catalan and European companies. As stressed at the time by the Secretary of State for Universities, Miguel Ángel Quintanilla on the initial proposal, this "emphasizes that the study plans as a contract of the university with the society to which promises to provide a quality service. "
This reform faces the renewal of the university system of the State in the international context with the aim that the titles of here not only are recognized abroad but also can serve as an example.
It should also be noted that the position of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona is the same as that of the Council of Associations of Technical Industrial Engineers of Catalonia that groups the schools of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Manresa and Vilanova i la Geltrú. In total, there are more than 12,000 professionals who work to provide a quality service to society from various fields, from administration to private enterprise through the liberal profession and education.
On October 26, the Council of Ministers approved, on the proposal of the Minister of Education and Science, Mercedes Cabrera, the Royal Decree on the Regulation of University Education. This decree is the culmination of the reform to allow the modernization of Spanish universities and position them on an equal footing with respect to the best university systems in the world.
The approved text establishes a more flexible and open structure of higher education, with three levels (Degree, Master's and Doctorate), which allows students to progress without any decision closing the path of their training. Consequently, thanks to this flexibility, university academic performance will be improved. The decree establishes an important innovation for universities because, for the first time in history, they will be responsible for designing and proposing the curricula that they consider most attractive and in accordance with their resources and interests. This facilitates the way towards the specialization of universities and their full adaptation to the needs and training options of their environment. With all this, the new model will allow more effective training of the best professionals and increase the responsiveness of universities to the demands of society.
The Government thus establishes important mechanisms for guaranteeing the quality of higher education. The study plans will be evaluated by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) before its implementation. In addition, all the titles must pass an evaluation every six years to renew the accreditation of their quality. The structure in three levels and the use of European credit will allow the new titles to be comparable with those of the 46 countries that make up the European Higher Education Area. Regarding the students that study in accordance with the system until now in force, the Royal Decree guarantees the total validity of the lessons. Therefore, all students and graduates fully retain their rights for academic or professional purposes.
It should also be noted that the Government has distributed, within its support programs to facilitate universities adapting to this reform, a total of 7 million euros in 2007.
The background to this important step is placed in the working document that was published by the Ministry, under the title of The Organization of University Education in Spain, on September 26, 2006 and which was presented on December 21 of same year in the University Coordination Committee. This commission issued a favorable report that with the ministerial document served as the basis for the process of approval of titles. After a period of analysis and debate on the proposal, in which the CETIT-led body chaired by its Dean Santiago Crivillé has actively participated, the titles adapted to these guidelines supporting the proposals of the General Council of Official Associations of Experts and Industrial Technical Engineers, which will begin to be implemented in the 2008-2009 academic year.
For the first time, the university will have to estimate the expected results of the lessons, on which will be evaluated later. All titles must have a system that allows them to check their correct functioning and dynamically establish the necessary improvement actions. The curricula must have the acquisition of competences at the center of their objectives.
The teaching organization has been carried out under three principles: to adapt the teaching and learning methods to the objective of acquisition of competences on the part of the students, to facilitate the student mobility and its contact with the professional world and to promote the lifelong learning.
Of the points that are contemplated, it should also be noted that the official degrees of the engineering knowledge branch will consist of 240 credits, which include those corresponding to internships, foreign languages and the degree project, between others. These credits are understood as a teaching load that the student must realize but with a more functional and reasonable system that allows a better and more effective participation of the students. These will have more mobility thanks to the flexibility and the university autonomy in the curricular design of the titles.
It should also be emphasized that Master's degrees are focused exclusively on specialization in specific and never-ending subjects, which is what is left for the Degree Engineering. The full attributions are in the Grade. Therefore, the so-called umbrella Master will not be established to avoid having their own guidelines that collect and add the professional privileges of degrees of the previous Degree, except in a very specific case of specific specialization.
With this arrangement, our newest universities will leave our new engineers and skilled, practical and multi-purpose engineers, with a good technical and human training that will cover the needs of the Tarragona, Catalan and European companies. As stressed at the time by the Secretary of State for Universities, Miguel Ángel Quintanilla on the initial proposal, this "emphasizes that the study plans as a contract of the university with the society to which promises to provide a quality service. "
This reform faces the renewal of the university system of the State in the international context with the aim that the titles of here not only are recognized abroad but also can serve as an example.
It should also be noted that the position of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona is the same as that of the Council of Associations of Technical Industrial Engineers of Catalonia that groups the schools of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Manresa and Vilanova i la Geltrú. In total, there are more than 12,000 professionals who work to provide a quality service to society from various fields, from administration to private enterprise through the liberal profession and education.