US EditionScreening Against “Shiring Universities” Comes Into Force with Mandatory Quality Reports and a Minimum of 4,500 Students
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The executive tightens the regulations to create private universities in the face of the "enclosure" of private centers in recent years; the reform limits the discretion of the autonomous communities to approve new campuses and will force the rectors to investigate
The Council of Ministers approved Tuesday the amendment of the decree establishing universities, launched by Minister Manuel Castells in 2021, to change the quality requirements. An attempt to stop what on March 31 President Pedro Sánchez called “chiringuito universities”, which in his opinion function as mere “academias” sponsored by the autonomous governments to “housing” those of public ownership. Continue reading
An accredited quality agency must ensure that projects meet the conditions and its report will now be binding.
Having a favourable quality report, reaching a minimum number of students or having half of the teachers have a doctorate degree are some of the measures approved by the Council of Ministers to tighten the conditions for creating new universities. Context: Currently, the Spanish university system consists of 96 centers, 50 of them public and 46 private. The last public university was established in 1998 and since then the new centers that have b…
The number of students at private universities in Spain is skyrocketing, far above that of major European countries, and the creation of these centers in certain parts of the country fails to meet minimum quality standards, even receiving unfavorable reports. To combat this situation, "strengthen quality standards" and "improve oversight and control mechanisms," the Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the Royal Decree on the creation, rec…
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Levante-EMVThe Council of Ministers approves the royal decree to put an end to 'academies and chiringuitos' who lack teaching and research quality
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