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In an event held this afternoon in the Hemicycle of Letters of the University of Murcia that has had the presence of the President of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia Fernando López Miras, the Rector of the UMU José Orihuela and Franciso Michavila Pitarch, Director of the Inoforme of the UNESCO Chair of Management and University Policy of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, has presented the first report of Accountability of the University of Murcia, second Spanish University that does after the Polytechnic University of Valencia and first university generalist throughout the country.
The event was also attended by various regional and university authorities, as well as four of the five candidates who choose the UMU Rector's Office next March, which gives an idea of ​​the expectation raised by the document.
A report to reflect on the work of the UMU
Professor Michavila said that "accountability is one of the priority elements of universities at this time, and this is how the UMU has understood this work".
He added that the Spanish university system is one of the most information in terms of figures and data generated, but an accountability is not an accumulation of data, but must be "the result of a reflection of an institution on how to make its university tasks using well the resources available, and if their work produces a satisfactory impact on their environment and in the region, generating wealth while addressing job growth ".
Michavila referred to the key features of the Accountability system developed by the UMU, based on 35 international best practices, developed with a clear language and accessible to all, addressed to the Region of Murcia, very graphic, with many tables, with indicators, data and their management.
It is direct, comprehensive (covering very diverse aspects, including culture), attractive, realistic and useful, he said.
Michavila explained that, in general, the UMU is in good positions compared to universities similar to ours, and highlighted one fact: that while 64 percent of university students are satisfied with the education received in their respective universities, at the University of Murcia this amount amounts to 90'4 percent, and made a tour of some of the most significant parameters of the UMU Accountability report.
Single Data Office
For his part, the Rector José Orihuela thanked the many attendees who filled the Hemicycle of Letters for being present in "this institutional act, the last of my mandate as Rector and the first Accountability in the centennial history of the UMU" , and described the event as "a new opportunity for the University of Murcia to show society its commitment to transparency and modernity."
We want those who read it said- "know us in depth", "we want to remain the university of all."
He added that these data are the germ of the new Single Data Office of the Institutional Intelligence Service that is born today to continue preparing these reports, in order to normalize the data referred to the University of Murcia that are requested and to ensure stability , integrity and veracity of the data that is offered to the management and management bodies of the UMU and to entities that request them.
"This office of Unique Data, dear candidates said referring to the four aspirants to govern the UMU present in the act - it is a gift that I do to anyone who arrives at the Rectorate, because I have not had it, and it is an essential tool to be able to show what we are and what we do. "
The Rector made a tour of some of the most remarkable facts obtained from his mandate: reinforcement of the internationalization and the number of scholarships and grants, contracts and places, research groups and projects, improvement of knowledge transfer, just as accredits in the number of registries, chairs with companies and industrial doctorates, creation of permanent headquarters in 30 localities of the Region, multiplying by 15 those that already had, creation of a new line directed to students with special educational needs, creation of 112 Groups of Teaching Innovation, increase in the number of postdoctoral contracts, creation of a call for highly qualified technical staff or 100.00 euros for a call for technical support personnel with professional training.
"The students have been my main stimulus," he said. "Therefore, I agreed to chair the CRUE Student Affairs Sector."
He also referred to the Administration and Services Personnel to comment, among other objectives, the recovery of full-time for interim personnel or the improvement of working conditions of more than 300 positions.
Regarding the teaching staff, he reported that 122 TU, 123 CU and 9 CDs for Ramón y Cajal have been promoted, with 122 places of Assistant Teachers Doctor being approved.
The total is 457 teachers promoted to TC of a staff of 1425, which means that the conditions of 32 percent of teachers to TC have been improved.
Goethe and the beautiful days
He also referred to the success of the fact that the official inauguration of the university course in Spain was held in the course 2015-2016 (the centenary of the creation of the UMU) at the University of Murcia with the presence of His Majesty the Rey, as well as the signing of the Pluriannual Financing Plan for Public Universities of the Region of Murcia 2016-2020, passing the total budget of the UMU from 178 million in 2014 to 215 in 2018, representing an increase of 21 percent, and He added that the unaffected stock of cash surplus has barely decreased (51.6 million in October 2017 and 52.4 million in December 2017, while the total surplus has increased by 6 million (79 and 73 million).
Orihuela made an explicit request to the president, arguing that the economic recovery of Spain should be exploited to launch a public policy of human resources in the public universities, and took advantage of the fact of being immersed in an electoral process to request the Regional President the collaboration of his government to culminate "the policies of recovery of templates that we have only been able to begin these years, and whose urgent need we have finally managed to visualize among all".
Orihuela ended his speech ensuring that he was satisfied with "our work and our performance as managers", detracting the time spent from "our personal life", "but we have done it assured" and we do it with love for the University. enough and I know that some, with more noise than harmony, have shown that it is insufficient, Goethe said that nothing is harder to bear than a succession of beautiful days.
Proud of our university
The turn of interventions was ended by Regional President Fernando López Miras, who congratulated Michavila and his team for this "magnificent Report on Accountability" and congratulated the Rector for the results obtained, which he said - "we all feel proud of our university. "
"We are one of the most transparent regions added," like the University of Murcia, "and said that" with this report, the UMU will serve as an example to other public and private organizations in the region to want to be much more participatory and more open. "
Later, Lopez Miras added that the Regional Government will continue to be next to the University of Murcia with the next Rector.
"We will continue to focus on the University, because the university is an example, it is the future, in the university ideas and knowledge are born, the university should be the example that we all follow in the Region of Murcia", that is the future of the Region in which I believe and the future for which we are going to fight. "And referring to Orihuela, he added:" You have always done what you understood to be the best thing for the UMU, which is to fight for the best for the Region of Murcia, and doing this has helped to have a better University of Murcia and have a better Region, "and concluded by saying that initiatives such as this Accountability Report" will be very useful for the new Rector and will have the President and the Government of Murcia at their side, next to an institution as prestigious as the University of Murcia ".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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