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The Agency’s director, Jaume Valls Pasola, updated the committee’s members on the status of the various studies currently being conducted by AQU Catalunya.
Yesterday, AQU Catalunya’s Technical Committee for Surveys held its first meeting of 2025. During the session, the Agency’s director, Jaume Valls Pasola, who also serves as the committee chair, updated the other members on all the studies currently being conducted by AQU Catalunya. To this end, he presented the Director’s Report, which, on this occasion, began with the Agency’s calendar of cyclical surveys and reports. Valls then updated the committee members on the progress of the Employment Outcomes Survey, the Recent Graduate Satisfaction Survey, and the Employers Survey before providing the annual information on database transfers. Lastly, he set out the schedule for the committee’s upcoming meetings.
After the presentation of the Director’s Report, the person responsible for the Employer’s Project, Sandra Nieto Viramontes, which is run by AQU Catalunya’s Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department, presented the details of the fieldwork undertaken for this study, the most recent edition of which received 1,411 responses. She also outlined the plan for the study in 2025, when, among other things, its final report and results will be published and presented at a conference.
Another item on the agenda was the approval of the 2026 Employment Outcomes Survey. For this edition, the questionnaires from the previous survey have been revised based on feedback, suggestions for improvement, and comments received during and after the fieldwork of the last edition. In relation to this particular survey, the committee was informed that the possibility of integrating the questionnaires for on-campus degrees and UOC degrees had been explored but that, in the end, the decision had been made to keep the two questionnaires and databases separate due to significant differences in the demographic and academic profiles of the two types of universities. The segment of the meeting focused on Employment Outcomes was led by project manager Josep Lluís Mateos González and data analyst Dani Torrents Vilà from the Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department at AQU Catalunya.
Finally, Núria Mancho Fora, a data analyst for AQU Catalunya’s Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department, explained to the committee members that the fieldwork for the latest edition of the Recent Graduate Satisfaction Survey, managed by AQU Catalunya, had a participation rate of 20% among undergraduate students and 25.8% among master’s students. With the data obtained, the Agency conducted a confirmatory factor analysis of the survey’s structure to update the calculation of the teaching-learning, results, and student support indices, determining whether the new calculation is comparable to the one used previously.
The Technical Survey Committee is chaired by the Agency’s director, Jaume Valls Pasola, and its members are experts in survey methodology from the Catalan universities. It aims to coordinate the content and implementation of surveys, as well as the use of the resulting data.