A English newspapers have taken to talking about the University. Several rector elections almost simultaneous with the morbillo, it seems inevitable, the partisan color, the first complaints of Bologna system, buzz association titles excess few students, problems funding for running costs, decrees disappointing as the statute PhD student or , obscurantism and suspicion in calls "agency quality" deciding on her future employment of teachers, territorial disputes with called "campus of excellence" , discounted items of research ... the problems are piling up. No one is happy.
I will not go too deeply into the whys, but surely the university is the university we have. And this is the feeling of teachers, researchers, students, parents, businesses ... and the media.
media relations with the University have always been peculiar, especially since the existence of journalism studies. The "spoons" despise graduates, graduates despise their training, managers want to make pasta riding their own masters and despise the other, the audience despise journalists unprepared ... and he is ready answers to the inspiration of the gods, self-formal education and despises but would like to give and occasionally gives a pease master class and worthy of more traditional theoretical professors. We, the excess contempt. Also unknown.
and ignorance extends to information about the University itself but is played to produce rankings of quality, competitiveness, efficiency even asking the university themselves. Without going any further, I received yesterday from a diary apparently a questionnaire sent to 3,000 teachers. I never answer because not only get angry when reading the questions but I understand that response helped the confusion. But in my personal blog allows me to tantrum, so fill in public journalistic questions for those who may be interested. Here are: 1 .-
Could you point, by the order and his understanding about the five universities where the degree is taught better than you are a teacher, excluding yours? Please let us indicate the reason for your answers and a prominent feature of every site mentioned .
Answer: No, I could not point to any. The reasons are many: do not know, no two the same curriculum and at least would have to attend classes at five universities. I can throw me into the pool and talk the talk, even by brand (you know, Harvard is Harvard, say, right?) I'm sorry to inform you that in fact I can not even speak well either of my own qualifications, assuming that imparts only one (I have come to teach in four simultaneously and I am not a rare case), I will not classes of my colleagues, or their classroom practices, or your tuition. Although if you want I can also speak from hearsay.
2 .- If I could choose the university where teaching assignment, which would you choose?
A: Actually this is a possibility so remote that it is hard to respond seriously. Furthermore no wage differences, and opportunities for improvement in the professional career center. I gather that the question refers only to the center (faculty or school) to the University, so we can head to the region is looking better than the Polytechnic or the reverse. But it happens almost the same. Interestingly, the differences lie in geographical or administrative issues. In Spain I would choose a university based in an autonomous community which pays more for its own sake, because the work is identical. In Europe, I would choose almost any other country other than Spain for the same reasons. In Germany, for example, would charge nearly triple and have a third of the students.
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Research is one of the factors that determines the quality of a university. Could you tell us the points of research that highlights the center and the recognition that they have both nationally and internationally?
A: The research centers are not only in charge of teaching and administration. They are the departments or institutes who theoretically could "highlight." In fact they are the teams of people who do, often belonging even several universities. Some teams are relatively stable, but others are constantly changing around a particular "boss."
4 .- Do you think your students complete their college degree with adequate preparation to effectively respond to the demands of the labor market?
A: Seeing the unemployment rate, it appears that the demands of the labor market are scarce. If we talk about efficient response as well .... should be assumed that the University can adapt to the crisis of each company every year, changing curriculum, programs and even teachers as if they were the workshops of INEM. In any case, I think it's vocational training to respond to that demand. Some careers are more professionalism that others. Of course we can always close all races Philosophy, for example, because the labor market does not need philosophers. What weary of this issue, indeed.
5 .- Finally, what are three features stand out from the university in which you are providing your degree?
A: This is the question that I like. "I can say in the government team that occupies the rectory, on the regional university system to which it belongs and even English university? Yes, I know they want our opinion on the "mark" of the University, with the illness of their territorial or commercial name and the ranking order. The fact is that essentially all English universities are equal, can not be distinguished too by legal definition, may appear but a mirage. The career of academics depends more on the areas of knowledge, evaluation committees and so-called quality agencies of universities. For not working there is no conscience, no sense of staff, or belong to the same "company" or "organization." The English system is based on the "hood" nothing to do with the Anglo-Saxon copy this type of reporting and reporting. And that is the ranking to be published, that of "chapels." Although please do not be based on articles or papers that nobody reads, or that no matter conferences, or research projects that serve only to write more or more papers at conferences. The report will
. University X is a number of positions at the University Y. And the English university is in the post zillion thousand world rankings. But we will not say what school we want and we can have. Even in the media. Contempt. And ignorance.
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