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Next meeting of the Faculty Board: March 10, 2011 - Key issue: Capacity Limits Next meeting of the plenary

On 10 March, Thursday, meets the Board of the Faculty of Arts. In addition to some business purposes, in which we have little or no object (for example, the possible appointment a professor emeritus), the Board will discuss the new boundaries of places for new revenue for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Our initial view is contrary to any decrease in the number of places offered new students: the University of Zaragoza is a public institution that aims to meet the educational needs of the society which financed through taxes. It's a bad precedent in this course, 2010-2011, many of qualifications of the faculty have had waiting lists for access, something unknown in the past. That is, this year has limited access to a series of letters degree, with a strong vocation, and whose number places not bound in principle to issues of market saturation of graduates, such as engineers, doctors or architects.

The origin of this unprecedented situation lies in two converging problems: first, an overall increase in the number of students enrolled in English higher education linked to the phenomenon of youth unemployment and the changing curriculum, and secondly, to budgetary constraints crosses the University, which is, we believe, that departments and schools fear they can not provide sufficient quality at the same or greater number of students with resources diminished.

While we understand this situation, we still think there many ways to ensure the quality of teaching , and that limit access to college is always the worst solution possible. That quality is achieved with improvements in teaching methodology, and innovation in classrooms, mentoring programs, with zero courses for new students, more scholarships and grants to not have to juggle work and study but avoid academic failure .. . Do a university for a few is not the solution and, above all, is not the model student and the society we want.





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