Approved the law that will put a cap on university fees: this is the Losu

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The Congress of Deputies definitively ratifies the norm, which will allow micro-training and reduce the temporary employment of teachers

The new law that will put a cap on the price of tuitionwill allow the microformation (also for adults who do not have a title but who prove their professional skills), will reduce the precariousness of teacherswill limit the mandate of the rectorate and give autonomy to the autonomous quality agencies has passed its last parliamentary process today: the vote and final approval in the Congress of Deputies by 182 votes in favor (PSOE, Unidas Podemos, ERC and PNV), 157 against (PP, Ciudadanos, Vox and Mixed group) and 8 abstentions (Bildu, Junts and BNG).

The Losu (organic law of the university system) It will be the third university norm of democracy. It will replace the Lou, a standard approved more than 20 years ago, when there were hardly any regional powers in higher education. Thought to move towards a (very distant) horizon of free university, the law lacks economic memory but has a firm commitment to increase funding for higher education (1% of GDP in the coming years). The regulations will enter into force shortly, 20 days after being published in the BOE. However, for everything that has to do with teachers and their job stability, the application will be postponed until the course 2025-26.

rate cap

The Losu establishes that the Public tuition prices may only be contained or reduced progressively, a decision that will correspond to the autonomous communities. Until now, the previous model allowed the possibility of setting a maximum price without limit by the General Conference of University Policy.

The law will provide training (and microformation) to students throughout life. Enrolling in a faculty will not only be possible with an academic degree (high school and selectividad), but also opens the door to those professionals with accredited experience in a field of work and with officially accredited competence, a model that is also in force for the FP.

Fight temporality

In the 2025-26 academic year the temporary staff will be reduced to 8% (instead of current 40%): visiting, distinguished, and substitute faculty. Meanwhile, associated teachers (professionals with “relevant” experience in the subject they teach) will have an indefinite contract instead of a temporary one and their hours will decrease from 180 teaching hours to 120. The moratorium specifies that the associates will not have to change their regime until 2024 so as not to distort the labor reality of the faculties.

The number of associates throughout Spain is high and can reach 30,000 (approximately 40% of the total). These are professionals who have other jobs off campus and their contracts are renewed every year. However, this article of the law has raised blisters among these teachers, some of whom have joined a strike.

He access to teaching career It will be carried out with the figure of assistant doctor, who will have a six-year contract (instead of five) as a step prior to stabilization through the figures of university holder or permanent employment.

Unemployment and colleges

For the first time, the right to academic strike by students (it is not called a strike because they are not workers), a common practice among students but which, curiously, is not included in the statutes of many faculties.

The senior colleges that segregate by sex may not be attached to a public university. The change is due to what happened this year at the Elías Ahuja male residence in Madrid, where the students yelled at the students of the female college located opposite: “Whores, come out of your burrows, you are nymphomaniacs. You are all going to fuck in the weather & rdquor ;.

Debates in the cloisters

One of the points that has raised the most blistering is the one that enables the cloisters to “analyze and debate issues of special importance& rdquor ;. Warning that something similar to what happened on the Catalan campuses in 2019 could happen, more than a thousand university professors signed a letter addressed to senators and deputies so that the new law enshrines “the political and ideological neutrality” of the cloisters. The article sparks conflicting positions on campuses.

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