A quarterly publication of AQU Catalunya
Jaume Valls Pasola, director of AQU Catalunya
The cartoonist Sempé died last August. He made magnificent drawings full of irony and tenderness, halfway between a joke and an illustration. One of his best-known books, a classic of the 20th century, was entitled Tout se complique: everything is complicated. I once worked with a full professor who, when things got tough for someone job-wise, would give them a copy of the book. Right now, “everything is complicated” is an appropriate way to describe the current quality scenarios in the Spanish university system.
AQU Catalunya has prepared an analysis from the gender perspective of all its research assessments carried out up to 2021.
For more than twenty years AQU Catalunya has been issuing research accreditations, which are a requirement established by law in order to be eligible to apply for a post as associate professor. The position of associate professor is a permanent position and has full teaching and research capacity.
Bringing students into contact with the world of work as soon as possible and reinforcing skills-based learning are some of the keys to promoting the employability of graduates from bachelor’s degree programmes in Economics, Business Administration and Management and Psychology.
Of all the extremely valuable and numerous data contained in the report Perspectiva de gènere en l’acreditació de professorat (Gender perspective in AQU Catalunya teaching staff accreditation), there are many that, unfortunately, do not surprise anyone minimally familiar with the situation of women in the world of research. The report confirms, for example, that women apply for fewer accreditations than men, and that they do so later. It also notes that the gap widens as one moves up the academic career ladder.
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