Note: As already explained , the decrease in the number of students enrolled in certain language electives has endangered the continuity of these subjects and the possibility that students are well trained in modern languages \u200b\u200bin his career. This is even more critical in the Faculty of Arts, where the importance of language studies is even greater, and our relationship with philological studies is even more intense. From this danger, and the reflections and proposals expressed and shared among teachers, students, and school management, Student Defense University has prepared a proposal for rationalization of these subjects to ensure their permanence. Last week we raised the Council Government our proposal through our representatives in this body. Our proposal groups focused on creating common language electives for all students the same center. Thus, students of Journalism, Philosophy or History could share resources in the form of faculty and space, and have a catalog of more extensive language courses Arabic, Catalan, Portuguese ... believe that any injury in the form of loss of expertise in language teaching will be largely offset by the breadth of opportunities. The proposal of rationalization has been taken positively by the Governing Council of the University of Zaragoza, and agreed to explore in depth this viabibilidad measure.
campus group weighs language electives. This year we have removed 16 in Philosophy from insufficient flow. 19/04/2011
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The University of Zaragoza, a proposal from the students themselves, study the feasibility of grouping language electives. The measure, introduced by EDU at the last Governing Council, would seek, first, a cost savings that would allocate items to other investments, but above all, ensure that all students could attend the chosen language.
Today, the Rector deleted material electives that do not meet the ten students, but the proposal provides for a streamlining of groups that would bring together students of different races in the same college. So the idea would affect mainly to the Arts, which produces the largest study of languages \u200b\u200band that this course has already removed 16 electives to not reach the required minimum number of students. One of them was Arabic, which only had two students enrolled, so it was deleted.
EDU's plan would cause a shift from 30 courses of this type to 16.
The economic crisis and the obligation to undertake adjustment measures led to the University of Zaragoza to remove more than 300 elective courses and groups in the past three years. Since 2009, the Chancellor has reduced from 170 groups of compulsory and optional 47 (230 subjects in total).
But this reduction has not reduced the number of teachers, although students has also grown. Currently, the university has 32,541 students in first and second stage and grade, with more than 1,500 enrolled in the third year and through 2010 they have chosen one of their own studies. The teacher student ratio stands at 9.53 also in this academic year.
The rector, Manuel Lopez, recently evaluated the reduction made by the university's staff has been made through the decline of subjects "under a scenario of freeze in hiring staff in administrative and service staff and teaching and research" .
