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On February 20 there was a demonstration, with a remarkable success of participation, to protest how the process of adaptation of Engineering degrees to the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been carried out, . The demonstration was promoted by the Institute of Technical Engineers of Spain (init), as a representative entity of Technical Engineering, which groups the col. Most extensive lecture of the state technical professions.
The General Council of Industrial Technical Engineers summoned, in turn, all the Official Colleges of TSI of Spain, who joined the mobilization, each one in the measure of their possibilities, taking into account the distant origin of Many of them, and calling both professionals and students. The route was originally from Madrid Puerta del Sol and ended at the Ministry of Education, in Calle Alcalá.
Since the ministerial orders were published in February 2009, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university qualifications that enable the different professions of engineer and technical engineer to perform, INIT He has spoken out against the solution provided by the Government to adapt Spanish Engineering to the EHEA. However, "the successive changes of the Government's criterion and the submission to the most conservative universities, and their immobility, have ultimately led to a situation characterized by the breakdown of negotiations and dialogue with the Ministry and which, successively, are being approved by titles that do not respond even to the own legal and normative criteria of the Government itself and the Ministry of Education, "explained the president of the General Council of Industrial Technical Engineers and vice president of init, Vicente Martinez.
INIT hopes that this situation will change as of now, after the meeting that Martinez, accompanied by several representatives of the INIT, maintained in the Ministry of Education with the general director of University Policy, Juan José Moreno, to which He was given a manifesto with the demands, at the end of the demonstration.
Init claims
Technical Engineering considers several premises essential:
- Degree degrees must be of a general nature.
- The name of the titles must have a clear reference to the name of the branch of the Engineering to which they belong.
- The competences and abilities to acquire with the degrees of Degree must be sufficient to carry out professional activities of a general nature in their field.
- The Masters in Engineering must be aimed at a specific specialization and oriented towards the development of the Master's own abilities without overlapping the competences acquired in the ministerial orders. It is not possible that 60 credits of a Master's degree can be covered by all the competences assigned in the ministerial orders.
- Access to the Master's Degree must be direct without the need for complementary training.
Source of information:
www.cogiti.es
The General Council of Industrial Technical Engineers summoned, in turn, all the Official Colleges of TSI of Spain, who joined the mobilization, each one in the measure of their possibilities, taking into account the distant origin of Many of them, and calling both professionals and students. The route was originally from Madrid Puerta del Sol and ended at the Ministry of Education, in Calle Alcalá.
Since the ministerial orders were published in February 2009, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university qualifications that enable the different professions of engineer and technical engineer to perform, INIT He has spoken out against the solution provided by the Government to adapt Spanish Engineering to the EHEA. However, "the successive changes of the Government's criterion and the submission to the most conservative universities, and their immobility, have ultimately led to a situation characterized by the breakdown of negotiations and dialogue with the Ministry and which, successively, are being approved by titles that do not respond even to the own legal and normative criteria of the Government itself and the Ministry of Education, "explained the president of the General Council of Industrial Technical Engineers and vice president of init, Vicente Martinez.
INIT hopes that this situation will change as of now, after the meeting that Martinez, accompanied by several representatives of the INIT, maintained in the Ministry of Education with the general director of University Policy, Juan José Moreno, to which He was given a manifesto with the demands, at the end of the demonstration.
Init claims
Technical Engineering considers several premises essential:
- Degree degrees must be of a general nature.
- The name of the titles must have a clear reference to the name of the branch of the Engineering to which they belong.
- The competences and abilities to acquire with the degrees of Degree must be sufficient to carry out professional activities of a general nature in their field.
- The Masters in Engineering must be aimed at a specific specialization and oriented towards the development of the Master's own abilities without overlapping the competences acquired in the ministerial orders. It is not possible that 60 credits of a Master's degree can be covered by all the competences assigned in the ministerial orders.
- Access to the Master's Degree must be direct without the need for complementary training.
Source of information:
www.cogiti.es