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San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia held this morning the official opening of the academic year 2015-2016.
Secretary of State for Justice, Carmen Sanchez-Cortez gave the inaugural lesson entitled 'Reforms for a needed change. "
During the same it has shelled the main lines of the National Reform Programme conducted by the Government of Spain in recent years.
"At the epicenter of the most brutal crises ever suffered in generations and wreaking havoc in all spheres of our life, we take the reins of a literally catatonic country," he said, and noted that thanks to the reforms of the justice that they have carried out, "we have made legal certainty added value of the Mark Spain, whose prestige is growing every day, and if it has been so because we have been able to give to the three key elements that had to be reformed: management, laws and a relentless fight against corruption. "
The ceremony began with the Eucharist presided by Cardinal Archbishop of Valencia, Archbishop Antonio Canizares;
and concelebrated Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena;
Manuel Ureña, archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Zaragoza, and Rafael Palmero, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante.
Cañizares has highlighted in his homily the radical secularism that prevails in today's society and said that "Christ is the truth, where a new humanity sits, and where the Catholic University sits".
In the academic ceremony intervened José Luis Mendoza, president of the UCAM;
Pedro Antonio Sánchez, president of the Community;
Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, archbishop of Valencia;
Monsignor Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, and Josefina Garcia Lozano, president of the University.
Also they attended by Antonio Sanchez-Solis, government delegate;
Maria Isabel Sanchez-Mora, Minister of Education and Universities;
Rosa Peñalver Pérez, president of the Regional Assembly or Silverio Nieto, director of the legal service of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, and ordered to submit to the Secretary of State for Justice.
Welfare State
Carmen Sánchez-Cortés Martin has focused the first part of its involvement in decision making, highlighting the many factors that are part of this and that "tip the scales of our determinations in one way or another";
and added that the process of decision making is in the same human condition.
With respect to the results of the reforms implemented by the Government, on the labor market, Secretary of State for Justice it has indicated that if 600,000 jobs per year were destroyed in 2011, in 2015 were created almost 540,000 jobs.
"For the first time we have fallen from 5 million unemployed, which is by no means to be happy, but it is an indicator that we are on the right track," he said.
In financial matters Sánchez-Cortés stressed that Spain grows above 3% and "the IMF puts us at the forefront of growth in the advanced countries."
Confidence-Security Policy
"The best insurance is a country in legal terms, the greater its potential to compete to attract investment, to stimulate entrepreneurship. The confidence and legal security are inseparable factors," he asserted Carmen Sánchez-Cortés, who gave as example is the case of Catalonia.
"While the credit rating agency Fitch has confirmed the good prospects for Spain, another agency, in this case Moody's has downgraded the credit outlook of Catalonia, putting it in the junk bond".
Another issue that has tried in his speech has been corruption, and has listed some of the actions developed by Spain to deal with a practice "that we all repugnant".
Among them recalled the Transparency Act, or the fact that a public official convicted of an offense of corruption can not go on electoral lists during the duration of his sentence.
Better train the best
Secretary of State for Justice has completed its lesson congratulating the UCAM by the act, "which is more than a simple opening ceremony," and symbolizes the commitment of the Catholic University of Murcia "to continue making quality and excellence a very powerful own label ".
José Luis Mendoza said that the institution he represents, which this year has exceeded 17 thousand students will continue, as it has done until now, struggling "with the same drive and faith" to provide teaching excellence, boost and generate research talent, encourage the creation of quality jobs, "ultimately create wealth for our society, all our resources to reinvest in it."
Regarding research has argued that a university that does not investigate becomes a teaching academy, and has indicated that the UCAM has invested in it in 2014 more than 11 million, and this year about 15. In addition, Mendoza has announced the creation of a pavilion of more than 15 thousand square meters, "where will the new UCAM Sports Center, an oncology clinic, new classrooms and virtual hospital of 2,000 square meters."
Similarly, he recalled the continuing difficulties experienced by the institution to develop its work, "by those who have an interest in our initiatives do not go forward."
In the same line it has been shown Josefina Garcia Lozano, who has detailed the progress that has garnered the institution as far as improving the educational offer;
boost entrepreneurship through the ITM;
re-accreditation of qualifications through ANECA, or the increase of international students.
He has also taken the opportunity to clarify "that there is no reason" to generate conflict in relation to the practices of medical students in public hospitals in the region.
For his part, President of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, stressed the importance of regional university system in the construction of society.
"Universities must be reaffirmed at the forefront of society, their work is crucial to create a critical society from values ​​such as responsibility and truth, as does this young university," he said.
Source: UCAM
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