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The University Council met today, December 4, alarmed by the rapid growth of the student movement base that opposes the construction of the European Higher Education Area, also known as the Bologna Process.
Allegedly, after swallowing their fear with muffins and coffee, have made the following statement:
The College Board, at its meeting on 4 December 2008, has discussed the development of the European Space for Higher Education in English Universities.
Building a Common Higher Education Area is an excellent opportunity to improve the English university system and each of the universities that comprise it. This European initiative which Spain is part stems from a strong commitment to university autonomy, academic freedom, equal opportunities and democratic principles, strengthens the University as a public service and promoting the universalization of higher education.
The ongoing process will involve an upgrade of the degrees offered at our universities, promoting a more active role of students in the control, planning and monitoring their own learning process. The European Higher Education Area served to all areas of knowledge and in particular those that constitute the essence of European universities.
Thus, the social and humanistic dimension of the university is part of the process of building the new common space, as is the commitment to higher education of the highest quality equally accessible to all. This requires further progress in establishing appropriate conditions for students to complete their studies without obstacles or limitations of social and economic background. Must continue to promote the policy of scholarships and study grants to encourage mobility within the European
Higher Education.
so far been conducted in the University Council about 700 reports of undergraduate applications and 60 reports of master's request. All university community, students, faculty and administrative staff and services, are working hard in preparation for a significant number of applications. Is a complex task requiring a significant commitment and are participating in many university and college. No doubt
deserve the gratitude and appreciation to all for your generosity, for his work and outstanding contribution to this process.
dialogue, tolerance and respect for different views are part of the essence of the University and the representative bodies and government of the universities are the ideal, open and democratic expression of the collective will university community. Therefore, reject the violent actions and attitudes of those who seek to ignore the legitimate democratic mechanisms that govern the functioning of universities.
Madrid, December 4, 2008 [1]
Forgive reader insolence, but, what is this? Minimally Consider this statement.
The first paragraph tells us that the organ in question has met, did not give the reasons for such a meeting (an absence that can tolerate) and has analyzed " development of the implementation of the EHEA ". Hopefully as a text that refers to how you're implementing this process. We feel let down, but this is not what we find.
In the second paragraph, with vague ideas, it reiterates the powerful idea that the EHEA is a "excellent opportunity" and that comes from Europe. These two pseudo-arguments have been exposed too often to take effect within the university community. Can certainly be a great opportunity, but we understand that this does not justify anything. When the clerk left the counter no doubt that this is an excellent opportunity for thieves. We ask: an opportunity for what? Who? Answer: "To improve the English university system and each of the universities that comprise it." Okay, at least in their statements "they" be trying to improve the university. But even though I repeat, the university community is not going to stop seeing with their own eyes, day after day, how this runaway train that is the destroyed EEES little by little the foundations of the university. As change for change is something that nobody in their right mind would support, list some juicy reasons: Bologna seeks "strong commitment to university autonomy, academic freedom, equal opportunities and democratic principles, strengthens the University as a public service and promoting the universalization of higher education. " No longer funny because anyone who has read the legal body of this reform is well known that putting a" no "to each of the above as understood what he wants this reform: loss of university autonomy, disappearance in the practice of teaching freedom, elitism and economic segregation in access to education, absence of democratic procedures, the purpose of education as a public service. You can skip questions as employability, the transfer of knowledge to the private sector, economic growth, and the promotion of R & D + i, which have been the core of the speech of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, which directs our universities. Curious neglect.
Of course, it comes from Europe does not serve as argument has also been working hours to 65 hours (for which the current economic crisis is a "golden opportunity", by the way) and it is none must be correct or free from debate. Not when the Bologna process in this walk involved 46 countries (more than those in the EU), and when the Union has no competence in education.
From here believe they have given a thorough account of why the EHEA is good, spending the rest of line to criticize and covertly to students who work to stop , for the sake of having a debate about it: a debate in which rational arguments have, as should happen in all areas of society, especially in higher education.
We are told in the third paragraph to tell you more, we will control our learning process ... is it because the reduction master class? Is it for about ECTS credits that prevent us from working and studying? Or was it because they learn almost nothing, the result of displacement of the contents (education) in favor of skills (which are of interest to businesses), but will not stop à la carte which we will prefer to poor training? also indicate that "the EHEA serves all areas of knowledge and in particular those that constitute the essence of European universities" . What are these essential elements? Nothing is said about it. And to mention that serves all areas of knowledge ... refer to the elimination of philology, the reduction of basic science studies and in general all theoretical profile races, or the abolition of Computer Engineering [2] ?
The fourth paragraph speaks of universal access to education, fellowship and equality. Curious reference when rates are still increasing above the CPI (between 0 and 4% a year over the index), when income loans harden their repayment terms [3] , when the masters are priced more than double the undergraduate course, when we said we pay very little in relation to the actual cost of education (which are willing to change), or in communities such as Madrid has postgraduate public for which the student pays 30% of their actual cost, reaching € 3,500 for tuition [4 ] .
In The fifth paragraph tells us to respect those who have worked in the curriculum. How can we fail to respect us if we / you the same / I?! We have formed (and still) part of academic committees, school boards, departments, cloisters, councils of government, everything. And since we've seen ridiculous representative proportion shattered checking how teachers had no choice but to adopt curricula that nobody believed, pressured by a legal framework was never commercialized with them afterwards applied also at breakneck speed . Since these bodies have opposed each of the measures that the university underwent the business world, which distorted the contents of our careers, which lowered the level of our studies, or limiting access to higher education universal. Now we are building participatory democracy. They did not want us to be players in the life of the universities? Then they will overeat.
respect the work of all the people that have spent endless hours in meetings, with whom we have grieved, hand in hand, to see this process of demolition of the university shake under our feet. We can respect them because we are them, because we are in the same boat; we, the community college, which has been ignored in this process, we are the ones who deserve respect: the students, faculty and university PAS. We can say "we", not those who have decided this reform on the backs of the people, in meetings of "high" with European employers and English, with the most interested in converting to / the thousands of students in a body precarious employment in the service of a production system that, rather than be committed to continue to defend, has water everywhere.
Why continue to rely on who have brought us to this chaos? Why not ask for the word better? Nothing else we're doing, ask for the floor. For years it has been said that the university was fully informed and in accordance with this reform. Now that the massive rejection of it is visible, it seems we are uninformed. Memory curious ours: we have forgotten why we liked both Bologna. No, nothing like that, they have run out of credit, from now on will have to explain to citizens what they are doing with their education system. We will not stop until the reasons are inimical reasons, not propaganda. If they are the ones who represent the values \u200b\u200bof our university, and do little more than mere propaganda (Which may not make people laugh who do not yet know what it is Bologna, but that angers the / the thousands of university students who study and suffer every day), then we do not want the university. We want to stop playing that we know what we say, something they know is completely false because in the few (and poorly advertised) discussions in which we have participated have found what arguments have more weight. We defend the education system: they are the "anti-system."
The last paragraph is a classic, they accuse us of violent / os. Thus falling into the common error is to mistake the strength of reasons with brute force. When someone is discovered lying surely feel something very violent and blushes. But that is not violence, is democracy. When for democracy?
[2] more about how happy / as which are the / as engineers, as this measure can be found at: http://www.huelgainformatica.es/
[3] http://web.micinn.es/contenido.asp?menu1=&menu2=&menu3=&dir=04_Universidades/AA2ConBAP/02 PRentaUniv/00 @ @ @ Titulados/00 2008-2009/00 -InfoGral
[4] 2Fpdf & blobkey http://www.madrid.org/cs/Satellite?blobcol=seccionpdf&blobheader=application% = id & blobtable = CM_Seccion_BOCM & blobwhere = 1142476877672 & ssbinary = true Page 8.
Alfredo Almond and Daniel Iraberri
Creek Lads, written in 1955, Pasolini's first novel and is the best gateway to his work. This is an extraordinary chronicle of life in the suburbs Rome during the years following World War II, and is a masterpiece, both as respects purely ethnographic literature, which grabs your attention from the first line. Pasolini is portraying people whose lives remain peripheral logic, beyond the illusions of both the upper classes and the traditional workers. Moreover, the powerful gaze that would later become a great filmmaker runs through the houses and streets of Rome, so that the city is another character, and very importantly, the book.
The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol, written between 1839 and 1841, and published in 1842, we presents one of the most moving characters in literature: Akaky Bashmachkin, an official at the lowest level of civil administration, which is outraged by social injustice and selfish indifference of the strong and rich, and whose destination is of being a "little man." Akaki for protection from the freezing winter in St. Petersburg, needs a new coat, but when she finally will get cold noticing the freezing cold that lives in the hearts of people around him.
"I still believe that there are cracks in the artistic history-if we consider the form and content separately," a crack that does not exist in Gogol's The Overcoat and Metamorphosis Kafka. "Vladimir Nabokov