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Madrid, March 14 (EFE).- The president of the Conference of Rectors (Crue) José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, has announced the launch of calls for Ukrainian university students to come to Spain to finish their studies.
This was said by the also rector of the University of Córdoba this Tuesday at the opening of the II Conference on Professional Orientation of Siena Education, where he explained that this initiative will also be open to Ukrainian teachers, as well as support to students from that country that are in Spain.
“Hopefully it will be for a short period of time because that will mean that the war will not last long,” said Gómez Villamandos, while expressing his hope that “the errors of the past will not be repeated and the first cuts in education will not be applied and research”, when asked about the economic crisis that the war in Ukraine could generate.
Gómez Villamandos has specified that this does not mean that the university community is not supportive, but rather that due to its importance he hopes that “it is not the first place from which it is removed”.
He has also been confident that the Plan to strengthen the university system in which Crue works with the Ministry of Universities will see the light, without having been able to specify “an amount or calls” for the moment.
The president of the rectors hopes that after Week the ministry headed by Joan Subirats will have already prepared the new text of the Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), with answers to what the Spanish university needs, among them “being more and more close to Europe.
On the new law, he recalled that the rectors have always demanded more autonomy and financing, although he stressed that “autonomy cannot be confused with deregulation” nor can it be subject to political fluctuations that would endanger the university system.
Asked if he has more hope in the result of the reform of the university system with Subirats than with his predecessor in office, Manuel Castells, the person in charge of Crue has limited himself to pointing out: “We are not talking about hope, we only like the facts” .
But he stressed that Subirats, who knows the university system, has been a professor and has political experience, has a treatment and a way of dealing with problems that is totally different from that of Castells.
Despite the voices that demand a single university entrance exam (Ebau), the rectors believe that it is something extremely difficult to achieve due to the competences of the communities, although Gómez Villamandos has been in favor of “greater harmonization in the examination models and in the correction criteria”.
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