Butlletí

A quarterly publication of AQU Catalunya

86

July 2017

EDITORIAL

The value of the graduate employment outcomes survey

The public universities in Catalonia, through their Social Councils, together with the private universities and 31 affiliated and partner schools and institutes all participated in the sixth survey and study of the employment outcomes of graduates from universities in Catalonia (2017), coordinated by AQU Catalunya.

AQU NEWS

• Presentation of the results and findings of the sixth survey of the employment outcomes of graduates from Catalan universities30.06.2017
• The Research Assessment Commission (CAR) endorses two new calls for applications for the issuance of the accreditation of research and advanced research29.06.2017
• New system for submitting abbreviated CVs for the call for applications for merits in research (six-year research quality premiums) 16.06.2017
• AQU Catalunya hosts the latest meeting of REACU13.06.2017
• Publication of studies on graduate employment outcomes and the perceptions of employers09.06.2017
• Teacher training: from access to university to professional practice07.06.2017
• Extraordinary call for applications for the assessment of research from teaching and research staff (full-time, part-time, temporary)31.05.2017
• AQU Catalunya and the Chilean National Accreditation Commission sign a memorandum of understanding23.05.2017
• The conference “How to incorporate evidence into decision-making” brings together assessors and decision makers in order to progress towards evidence-informed policies16.05.2017
• TeSLA meeting in Sofia16.05.2017
• Completion of fieldwork on 6th employment outcomes survey15.05.2017
• AQU Catalunya drafts Catalan qualifications framework12.05.2017
• TeSLA webinar: discover the EU project for authentication and authorship in online assessment12.05.2017
• AQU Catalunya travels to Oslo to take part in the 7th ENQA forum05.05.2017
• TeSLA project: First face-to-face meeting of external experts (Head Panel)28.04.2017
• Conference: “How evidence can be incorporated into decision-making”28.04.2017
• AQU Catalunya at the second edition of the conference “Future generations for ICTs: tools for teachers”26.04.2017
• AQU Catalunya at the Industrial Forum of the Polytechnic School of UdG24.04.2017
• Meeting of the Governing Board of AQU Catalunya19.04.2017
• Completion of fieldwork on graduates of higher education degree programmes in the Arts with 553 survey respondents19.04.2017
• Results of the second call of 2016 for tenure-track lecturers, tenured assistant professors and full professors11.04.2017

ARTICLES

• Sixth survey of graduate employment outcomes - doctoral degree holders
  The fourth survey of the transition into employment (graduate employment outcomes) of doctoral degree holders from universities in Catalonia has just been completed (2017). In all of the four surveys, approximately 5,000 doctoral degree holders have been interviewed. In the latest survey, more than 50% of the reference population were interviewed, covering those awarded doctoral degree in the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 academic years at the seven public universities and four of the five private (bricks-and-mortar and online) universities in Catalonia.
  Anna Prades Nebot and Daniel Torrents Vila
• Sixth survey of the transition into employment of graduates of universities in Catalonia
  The 2017 survey of the transition into employment of graduates (graduate employment outcomes) from universities in Catalonia covered a total number of 15,563 people who graduated in the 2012-2013 academic year (aside from Medicine, for which the baseline academic year was 2009-2010), a figure that accounts for half of the graduate population completing both pre- and post-Bologna programmes in the academic year of reference. In this latest survey, all of the public and private universities in Catalonia took part, together with 31 affiliated and partner schools and institutes, which together represent almost all the higher education and university system in Catalonia.
  Anna Prades and Dani Torrents

OPINION

• Challenges facing undergraduate degree programmes in Medicine
  

  Editorial Department
  AQU Catalunya

  In conclusion to the contributions put forward at the workshop Ways to improving the training of medical students held at the University of Barcelona on 15 March 2017, this article presents a summary of the main challenges that were identified and, where applicable, who is responsible for their implementation.

• Challenges facing undergraduate degree programmes in Nursing
  

  Editorial Department
  AQU Catalunya

  In conclusion to the contributions put forward at the workshop Ways to improving the training of nurses, held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on 15 February 2017, this article presents a summary of the main challenges that were identified and, where applicable, who is responsible for their implementation.

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