New Plan

If you have enrolled in a new degree course, it means that this qualification is already adapted to the Bologna Process, and so Bologna is now going to be a reality for you.

 

Your degree must have been designed based on the skills you will have to acquire. These skills will be clearly defined in your study plan and you will acquire them through your studies in the modules and subjects you take.

 

• Your degree must be based on a model focused on the student and his or her learning process.

 

• Your degree has been evaluated by ANECA, the Spanish quality evaluation and accreditation agency, a public body attached to the ministry that works to ensure that the requirements for offering the new degrees are met and will be understood as part of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

 

• You will be able to start working when you finish the degree.

 

• All the degrees must be reviewed by ANECA every six years in order to retain their accreditation.

 

• The amount of work that you carry out (hours of lectures, preparation of work/reports/practical studies, individual study, etc.) to complete each subject will be measured in European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits.

 

• The ECTS will enable you to move around more easily, as all the EHEA countries (there are currently 46) will recognise and transfer ECTS credits, which are transparent and easily understood by all the European university systems.

 

• If you wish to change to another degree you will not lose a single credit. All your credits that relate to this branch of knowledge will be automatically recognised; all those that are the same will be recognised while the remainder will be transferred.

 

• Your participation in cultural, sporting, student representation and charity activities at university will also be recognised in the form of credits.

 

• You will have access to the grants systems of the ministry, your autonomous region, etc., and these must be portable (in other words, if you go to study in another EHEA country, you will retain your grant), as well as Erasmus scholarships and any others from your own university.

 

• You will have the added value of having acquired a range of tranverse skills, which will be highly valued by society (public speaking, language abilities, team work, etc.)

 

• When you finish, you will have a European Degree Supplement, which will set out your skills in a way that any employer or European university will be able to understand.

 

• You will be able to go on to study a master’s degree and then a doctorate at any university within the EHEA.

 

Since this is a process of change within our universities, and since students have a responsibility, as part of the university community, to ensure the new plans are as good as possible, we should all take part in the process by telling our lecturers or the relevant bodies (departmental councils, faculty boards, directors, deans, teaching staff, governing councils, social councils, rectors or vice rectors) all our views on the new system and our proposals to improve the plan, the ECTS system, etc.

 

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