By means of the Resoluction octobre 16 2016,
Submission's deadline: January 3, 2017.
News
2016's call for the application of compensation bonuses for recognition of administrative positions
02/12/2016
2016's call for the application of compensation bonuses for recognition of curriculum excellence in teaching and research
02/12/2016
By means of the Resolution of october 5 2016, (Official Journal of Galicia (DOG) of decembre 2, 2016) the ordinary call for the application of compensation bonuses for recognition of curriculum excellence in teaching and research was approved and the period for submittal of requests was opened.
Submission's deadline: January 3, 2017.
2016's call for the application of compensation bonuses for recognition of teaching and/or research work
02/12/2016
By means of the Resoluction of october 7 2016 (Official Journal of Galicia (DOG) of december 10, 2015), the ordinary call for the application of compensation bonuses for recognition of teaching and/or research work was approved and the period for submittal of requests was opened.
Access to the application for submitting a request
Submission's deadline: January 3, 2017
Report on the status of external quality evaluations in Spanish universities 2015
02/12/2016
The National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (ANECA) and the quality assurance agencies from Spain's Autonomous Communities have published the report on the status of external quality evaluations in Spanish universities, corresponding to the year 2015.
The report presented here is the nineth in a series of reports that began in 2007 for the Ministry of Education with the primary objective of reporting on the development of the processes of evaluation, certification and accreditation in Spain in the field of higher education
ACSUG took part in the 11th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) in Ljubljana
01/12/2016
The ACSUG has attended the 11th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF), which it has been organized from the 17 to 19 November 2016 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The EQAF is an annual forum where the stakeholders, including students, universities, university quality assurance agencies, etc. can exchange experiences in higher education.
Resolution of 7 November 2016, from the Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Organisation at the University of Oviedo
16/11/2016
Resolution of 7 November 2016, from the Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Organisation at the University of Oviedo, which establishes the procedures and deadlines for submittal of requests for evaluation of the research activities carried out by temporary and non-permanent teaching staff, corresponding to the year 2016.
Request Submittal Period
14 November through 3 December
ACSUG takes part in the 2016 ENQA General Assembly in Gloucester
14/11/2016
On 20 and 21 October, it was celebrated the 2016 General Assembly of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). The ACSUG Director attended the meeting in representation of ACSUG, as an agency full member of ENQA.
As usually, before the General Assembly, it was organized a forum, with the attendance of more than 200 representatives of the 49 agencies members of ENQA. In the forum, different topics regarding the quality assurance in higher education were discussed in round tables, debates, presentations and posters. The ACSUG presented a poster about the labor insertion surveys of the graduates in the different types of degrees in the Galician University System. During the poster presentation, it was fomented an interchange of opinions with the attendants regarding the main results and relevant aspects of the labor insertion, such us the percentage of people who found a job, where and how they found it and the competences most valued to access to the job position.
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Afterwards, in the General Assembly, the admission of new ENQA memberships was approved, among which it is the Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ACPUA), so there are already 8 Spanish agencies full members of ENQA. Then, they were also approved the 2016 annual accounts and the 2017 budget and planning of activities by the voting members.
Results of the evaluation prior to hiring of teaching staff now available for 2016
09/11/2016
The evaluation and/or report for the 2016 call is now available to all who request a copy, and the resolutions can be picked up at ACSUG headquarters from November 14 to November 18, 2016. After this period the resolutions will be sent by mail.
Doctoral Schools meeting
07/11/2016
A meeting in the ACSUG offices with representatives of the Doctoral Schools, Degrees Vice-rectorates and Quality Areas of the three Galician Universities was hold Last 24 October 2016. The main aim of the meeting was to work and in the contents and the minimum requirements of the guide document regarding the follow-up and renewal of accreditation of the Doctoral Degrees.
Meeting of the ECA board in Paris
07/11/2016
A Board meeting of the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) was hold the 11 October 2016 in Paris. The ACSUG has a representative in the Board, since the appointment of one of its workers as a Board member, for a 2-year period, in the ECA annual meeting celebrated in Santiago of Compostela last June.
The ECA Board is responsible, among its functions, of the planning, the coordination and the revision of the activities carried out by the organization.
Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System (ACSUG) has carried out the report’s presentation: “Labor market insertion of Galician University System Graduates 2011-2012”
20/10/2016
On Monday 17th October, Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System has carried out the report’s presentation: “Labor market insertion of Galician University System Graduates 2011-2012”. This presentation was made by General Secretary of Universities, D. José Alberto Díez de Castro; president of the ACSUG board of Directors, D.ª María Patrocinio Morrondo Pelayo and ACSUG executive director, D. José Eduardo López Pereira.
This report is framed within the labor market studies of the Galician University System Graduates, which are carried out regularly by ACSUG since 2001. Now, as the latest release in its series of labor market insertion studies produced for graduates of the SUG, which compiles the results obtained from the tenth survey given to graduates from the SUG universities performed in December 2014.
The survey simple in this most recent study represents approximately 58% of the total population of graduates, including 4,687 graduates (diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, engineering and architecture degrees, and technical engineering and architecture degrees), and degrees.
The main conclusions from this report are:
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For 73.33% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year, the degree obtained had been their first choice. |
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54.38% of graduates benefited from scholarships during their studies. Of them, more than half, 50.68%, maintained this for three or more academic years. In 97.38% of cases the scholarship came from a Spanish public institution. |
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45.25% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year had at the time of the survey completed another university degree, apart from the degree for which they were surveyed. Of them, 64.20% had obtained a Master’s degree. |
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Almost half, 48.22% of graduates, performed internships in companies/institutions during their studies. |
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39.03% of respondents combined studies with work, but only in 35.78% of cases was the work full time. 61.37% of graduates who worked during their studies indicated that the work was not related to their degree. |
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19.28% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year participated in a mobility program during their time at the university, mainly in the Erasmus program, with 69.15%. In 80.05% of cases the destination was a university elsewhere in the European Union. |
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91.36% of graduates knew a language other than the oficial languages of the SUG (Galician and Spanish). Of them, 61.79% reported knowing only one additional language. Those languages reported as better known were English, French and Portuguese, with 86.09%, 4.91% and 4.16% respectively. At the time of describing their language knowledge, 57.48% of those surveyed defined themselves as an independent user (levels B1 and B2). |
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Job search |
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81.00% of graduates sought employment related to their degree after completion of their studies. Of them, 56.38% found it. |
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38.83% of graduates took longer than 6 months to find their first job after their degree. The average time taken for graduates to find their first job after their degree was 9.79 months. |
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Job search routes most commonly used by graduates during the 2011- 2012 academic year were the internet, with a 4.06, self-promotions, with 3.81, and through personal contacts, family or friends, with 3.16 . More than half of the graduates, 50.97%, found their first employment by one of these three methods. |
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Graduates highlighted as the most relevant factors in obtaining a job, the attitude during the interview, with 4.47, job-related experience, 4.43, knowledge of languages, with 4.10, and geographical mobility, with 4.08. |
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Current situation |
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23.38% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year were continuing with their studies at the time of the survey. Of them, 47.50% were studying for a Master's degree and 28.31% studying a Bachelor's degree. Therefore, of the total number of graduates in 2011- 2012, 11.11% continued to study a Master's degree and 6.62% a Bachelor's degree. |
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19.59% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year were preparing for competitive examinations at the time of the survey. |
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67.53% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year were working at the time of the survey. Among those not working, 61.54% indicated having worked at some point since they finished the degree. Such work had ended on average 7.23 months prior to the survey, the reason stated as end of contract in 75.29% of cases. |
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13.53% of graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year were not studying additional university courses, preparing for exams or working at the time of the survey. |
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Current employment (after degree) |
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The majority of the graduates, 82.08%, were working in Galicia. 14.64% were working in another autonomous community and only 3.29% worked outside of Spain. The most common reason given for working outside of Galicia was not being able to find work in this community, with 37.36%. |
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86.02% of graduates who were working when they responded to the survey did so as employees. Of them, 1.33% were without a contract. As regards the type of work schedule, 71.31% of respondents who worked did so full-time. |
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51.95% of companies in which respondents were working have fewer than 50 employees. Only 33.28% of graduates who were working did so in companies with more than 250 employees. |
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The average salary of a graduate during the 2011-2012 academic year was €1,037.08 per month. More than half of the graduates, 54.65%, had a monthly salary of less than €1,000. The analysis of salaries by gender concluded that the average monthly salary for men was €1,147.71, whereas for women it was €975.44. |
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71.07% of graduates who worked were carrying out university-level functions in their work. Of them, 81.70% were carrying out functions specific to their degree. In addition, 68.53% of the graduates that worked claimed to be fairly or very satisfied with their work. |
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The five skills most valued by graduates during the 2011-2012 academic year were learning capacity, with 4.45, problem solving skills, with 4.44, motivation, with 4.42, oral/written communication skills, with 4.41, and adaptability, with 4.36. |
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Satisfaction with the academic route |
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88.83% of graduates would pursue university studies again. Of them, 78.32% would choose the same degree, of which 86.48% would repeat their studies at the same university. This means that 60.16% of total graduates from the SUG during the 2011-2012 academic year would repeat exactly the same academic route, i.e., they would pursue the same degree again at the same university. |
Report’s Presentation: “Labor market insertion of Galician University System Graduates 2011-2012”. On Monday 17th October at 12:00 hours in ACSUG.
14/10/2016
On Monday 17th October at 12:00 hours in ACSUG will be presented the ACSUG´s publication: “Labor market insertion of Galician University System graduates 2011-2012”. This presentation will be made by Secretaría Xeral de Universidades, president of the ACSUG board of Directors and ACSUG Director.
ACSUG is now presenting the publication of its “Labor market insertion of Galician University System Graduates 2011-2012”, as the latest release in its series of labor market insertion studies produced for graduates of the Galician University System, which compiles the results obtained from the tenth survey given to graduates from the SUG universities, performed in December 2014. titulados universitarios no SUG.
The survey simple in this most recent study represents approximately 58% of the total population of graduates, including 4,687 graduates (diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, engineering and architecture degrees, and technical engineering and architecture degrees), and degrees.
This survey is framed within the labor market studies of the Galician University System Graduates, which are carried out regularly by ACSUG since 2001.
The primary objectives of this study coincide with the previous studies performed by the ACSUG on the same subject, and this report is structured into two main themes: collection of information on the graduates’ perceptions on their education and their university; and collection of information on their search for employment and their current situation in the workplace.
FIDES-AUDIT Program. Certification Phase for Implementation of Quality Guarantee Systems
11/10/2016
The call for applications is being published for participation by universities in the process for Certification of Implementation of Quality Guarantee Systems (SGCs in Spanish).
The time period for submitting applications begins on 24/10/2016 and ends on 25/11/2016.
Interested universities must complete the participation application.
Autonomous Community Compensation Bonuses: Call for Applications 2016
22/09/2016
Please be informed that the publication procedures have been initiated for announcement of the various complementary payments from the autonomous community of Galicia for the year 2016.
International training seminar for specialist in self-assessment and university accreditation (20-24 September 2016)
21/09/2016
The INTERNATIONAL TRAINING SEMINAR FOR SPECIALISTS IN SELF-ASSESSMENT AND UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION is been celebrated in the ACSUG venue. The participants of the seminar are teachers, students and graduates of the San Martín de Porres University (USMP) from Lima (Peru). The official opening of the seminar counted with the presence of the Galician Secretary of Universities (PhD Mr. José Alberto Díez de Castro), the ACSUG President (PhD Ms. Patrocinio Morrondo Pelayo) and the ACSUG Director (PhD Mr. José Eduardo López Pereira).
The attendees are going to participate in five busy conference days, in which some of the topics in the agenda are: “The role of ACSUG in the different evaluation programs”, “The monitoring and accreditation of degrees”, “The recognition of curricular excellence” or “The teaching staff accreditation”, always combining the theory and practice with the resolution of practical case.
The last two days, the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Coruña are going to be the venue of the meeting, respectively. In both universities, after an official reception by the Rectors, the attendees could check the perception of the Galician universities about the different evaluation processes carried out by ACSUG.
Strategic plan ACSUG 2016-2020
16/09/2016
The ACSUG has approved recently its first Strategic Plan 2016-2020, which it is going to be critical for the future decisions and for the promotion of the excellence in quality. The Plan is the result of a long reflection period with the participation of all the stakeholders of the higher education, in which the ACSUG has shown the future road to follow, seeking always the adaptation to the new procedures and activities.
The objective of the ACSUG is to improve continuously its activities, since the creation of the agency in 2001 and since its integration in the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), and to revise its mission, to respond to the new challenges of the continuous innovation in the Higher Education.
Meta-evaluation meetings in ACSUG
16/09/2016
ACSUG developed different activities along the past month July, with the aim to work in the continuous improvement of its procedures of evaluation of degrees (monitoring and accreditation) and its procedures of centers assessment (quality assurance systems).
Firstly, with the objective to gather information from the different stakeholders (coordinators and responsible of degrees and external evaluators), some surveys have been carried out to measure the satisfaction with the call of 2015/5016. In the surveys, among other aspects, the questions were about the documentation, organization and development of the different evaluation processes.
After that, two meetings were organized in ACSUG to analyze and to reflect on all the information available about the processes with the main aim to detect weak points and to make improvement proposals.
Among other topics discussed during the meetings, we can emphasize the following: the way of presenting the documentation by the universities, guidelines, templates, timetables of the evaluations, organization and development of the site visits, etc. A first planning of the next evaluation call 2016/2017 was also an important topic in the meetings.
Meeting with evaluators, representatives of each of the branch of knowledge commissions of ACSUG in the area of degrees (14.07.2016)
