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RULES
FOR ACCESS TO TEACHING CATEGORIES
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Preamble
Article 48.2 of the Ramon Llull University Statutes states
that "access to the categories of University professor
or lecturer and University School professor or lecturer
may be achieved through promotion, open competition or
internal competition, according to the justified proposal
made by the Centre concerned to the Governing Board".
Article 51 of the same Statutes adds that "selection
and promotion of teaching staff, timetables, incompatibilities,
licences or any other appropriate matters, shall be regulated
by the future Rules of procedure concerning the teaching
staff and by the particular rules of each Centre".
Finally, the first transitional provision of the Statutes
states that "the aforementioned Rules of procedure
must be drafted by the 1 January 1996".
As a result, the Trust of the Private Foundation of Catalonia
for the Ramon Llull University, on a report by the Governing
Board, approves the following Rules of Procedure for the
Teaching staff.
Chapter one. General principles
Article 1. Contracting by the Centres
The contracting of teaching staff by the Federated Institutions
of the University shall be decided on the initiative of
each Institution, which shall freely establish contracts
and establish the corresponding contractual regime according
to the criteria of the Institution itself. Teaching staff
shall be paid from the budget of the Federated Institution
that has contracted it.
Contracting of the teaching staff of the Integrated (non-founding)
Centres shall be left up to the Foundation and shall be
governed by its own rules. Such teaching staff shall be
paid from the Foundation's budget.
The regime of incompatibilities, timetables, licences
or any other appropriate matters concerning teaching staff
shall be regulated by the rules of each Centre pursuant
to the criteria established in these Internal Rules and
those governed by the Statutes of the Ramon Llull University.
By virtue of the process established in these Internal
Rules, the appointment of a professor or associate professor
of the Ramon Llull University shall not automatically
cause any change to the conditions governing their contractual
relationship with the Centre on which they depend, without
prejudice to any conditions that the corresponding Centres
may establish for such cases.
Article 2. Academic structure
Pursuant to article 50 of the University Statutes, and
on a proposal from the centres comprising it, the Board
of Governors of the University shall be granted the power
to define the necessary teaching structure of the staff,
in other words, the numbers of lecturers of the different
categories in relation to the number of students and the
characteristics of each Faculty and School, whilst maintaining
the necessary balance between the different categories
of teaching staff, in line with the demands for teaching
and research.
Article 3. Teaching categories
The categories established by the University are "University
professor or lecturer, University School professor or
lecturer and University Institute professor or lecturer
of the Ramon Llull University."
Candidates may accede to the categories of professor or
lecturer through a system of promotion, open competition
or internal competition, via the process regulated in
these Internal Rules pursuant to the Statutes of the Ramon
Llull University.
Professors or Lecturers of Faculties, Higher Schools and
Institutes, and University School Professors must hold
a Doctorate. University School lecturers must hold a Bachelors
Degree (BA or BSc), or be an Architect or Engineer, Diploma-holder,
Draftsman or Technical Engineer.
The categories of associate professors, emeritus professors,
visiting lecturers, researchers and assistant lecturers
referred to in Article 46 of the Statutes shall be determined
or recognised as teaching staff exclusively according
to the rules of each Centre, without prejudice to the
obligation of the Centres to notify the Rectory of the
University thereof. Within fifteen working days of the
notification, the Rector of the University shall proceed
to award the corresponding "venia docendi" pursuant
to Article 19.3.m) of the University Statutes.
Chapter two. Approval process
Article 4. Centre's own initiative
The process to be followed to achieve the category of
professor or lecturer of the Ramon Llull University shall
be started on an initiative by the Dean or Head of each
Centre, and in line with the Rules of procedure, with
the approval of the corresponding body directly proposing
the system to be followed to the Corresponding centre
- promotion, open competition or internal competition.
In all three cases (promotion, open competition or internal
competition) it is left up to each Centre to regulate
and carry out the prior phases of selection of the most
appropriate system; a proposal to the University, announcement,
advertisement, call, presentation of applications for
the candidates, admission or exclusion, presentation of
the appropriate documents (CV, teaching project and research
project), presentation of allegations, etc.
Once these three phases are complete, the Centre shall
submit the proposal of the process with all the appropriate
documents and the profile of conditions and tasks to be
performed by the candidate to the Rector of the University,
who shall order the start of the corresponding process
at the University at the latest thirty working days from
receipt of the proposal.
The Rector may only reject a proposal for approval if
it fails to comply with any of the articles of the Statutes,
of these internal rules, or if it is clearly incompatible
with the academic structure of the University.
Pursuant to Article 48.3 of the Statutes of the Ramon
Llull University, the Governing Board may, if it considers
necessary, appoint a Teaching staff commission which must
be heard by the Rector for the appointment of the tribunal
and even for the final admission of the candidate.
Article 5. Composition and appointment of the Tribunal
The Tribunal shall be proposed by the Centre, on whose
initiative the approval process will be set in motion
and the member of staff appointed by the Rector of the
University, at the latest thirty working days from the
start of the process. The Rector may only reject a proposal
for appointment by the members of the Tribunal when such
a proposal runs counter to the Statutes or the Rules.
The Tribunal shall comprise five members for the process
of approval of a University, Faculty, Higher Technical
School or Institute professor or lecturer, or three members
in the case of a University School professor or lecturer.
Replacement members of the Tribunal, numbering two and
one respectively, shall be proposed and appointed in the
same way.
The members of the Tribunal must be of an equivalent or
higher academic category than the categories for which
approval is sought. Two members of the Tribunals at most
may belong to a University other than the URL or to a
qualified Research Centre.
The President and Secretary of the Tribunal shall be designated
by the Rector from among the members proposed by the Centre.
Members appointed to the Tribunal may not refuse without
due justified cause. It corresponds to the Rector of the
University to consider the cause put forward and to decide
upon the replacement member.
The Tribunal shall be set up within thirty working days
from its appointment at the latest.
The Tribunal shall be legally constituted with the presence
of all of the members that make it up, the presence of
whom shall be obligatory throughout the approval process.
Should any of the members of the Tribunal be absent from
the act of constitution or from any of the remaining phases
of the process, they shall be dismissed as members of
the Tribunal and the Rector shall automatically appoint
a successor.
Article 6. Assessment and report of the Tribunal
Once the Tribunal has completed its work, it shall discuss
the suitability of the candidates to the corresponding
category in secret and shall issue a resolution to be
presented to the Rector, in a maximum of twenty-four hours
from the end of the last exercise.
The Tribunal shall take the decision by absolute majority.
The Tribunal's decision may not be appealed against.
In the case of the system of access by promotion, when
the Tribunal decides not to authorise the candidate, the
Centre may not propose a new process of promotion for
the same lecturer until one year after the Tribunal has
given its opinion.
Article 7. Appointment by the Rector
Within 15 working days, if appropriate, the Rector shall
issue the appointment of the staff member and award the
"venia docendi", pursuant to Article 19.3.g)
of the University Statutes.
Article 8. Advertising the process
The Rector's decision to initiate the process within the
University, the appointment and setting up of the Tribunal,
the day, place and time at which tests are to be held,
the decision of the Tribunal and other acts or resolutions
governed by these Internal Rules, shall be published both
on the Rectory notice board and that of the corresponding
Centre that began the approval process, without prejudice
to its being communicated personally in writing by registered
post to the candidate or candidates concerned.
Chapter three. Approval tests
Article 9
The exercise to be assessed by the Tribunal shall consist
of two tests to examine the four categories envisaged
in Article 3 of these internal rules. The tests shall
be held in a place to be determined by the Centre that
began the process and will be public.
For competitions, the order of presentation of the candidates
shall be decided by the drawing of lots.
The first test shall entail the candidate presenting
his or her curriculum vitae and teaching project. When
considering access to the category of University lecturer
(either of a Faculty or a Higher Technical School) on
assessing the candidate's curriculum vitae, the Tribunal
shall take into account both teaching and research merits.
For access to the category of University School lecturer,
the main criterion shall be teaching merit only.
The second test shall involve speaking about one subject
of the programme of the teaching project presented by
the candidate. For the competition for resident lecturer,
the subject shall be chosen by the Tribunal from among
the five proposed by the candidates from among the teaching
project. For the competition for the professorship,
the subject shall be chosen by the candidate from among
the five chosen by the Tribunal, and from the candidate's
teaching project.
In exceptional circumstances, when the access system
to be followed involves promotion, the Centre that has
begun the process may choose to replace this second
test with a direct assessment by the Tribunal of the
teaching work performed by the candidate over the previous
years. This will be based upon a report presented by
the Dean or Director of the Corresponding centre, and
must include the results of surveys or equivalent means
used by the students of each Centre to evaluate the
teaching skill of their teaching staff.
This request to replace one test with another shall
be made by the Centre concerned along with the Tribunal's
proposal regulated under Article 5 of these internal
rules.
Each test shall last a minimum of one hour and a maximum
of three. There must be a pause of at least twenty-four
hours between the first and second tests and the total
test period may not exceed fifteen working days.
The tribunal shall publish the day, place and time of
the holding of the test through an announcement published
both on the Rectory notice board and that of the corresponding
Centre that began the approval process.
Chapter four. Loss of professional status
Article 10
Loss of professional status (category) shall result
from the opening of disciplinary proceedings by the
Centre or the Rector. Disciplinary proceedings shall
be initiated as a result of failure by the lecturer
to comply with the duties laid down in the statutes
for the academic staff. The lecturer concerned by the
dossier may appeal to defend his or her interests. Disciplinary
proceedings shall be resolved by the Board of Governors,
whose decision may not be appealed against to the Rector,
pursuant to Article 19.3.m) of the University Statutes.
If appropriate, the Rector shall declare the loss of
professional status and shall personally notify the
lecturer concerned by the proceedings.
The execution of the disciplinary procedure shall be
regulated by specific rules to be drawn up within one
year following approval of these internal rules.
Professional status shall also be lost on expiry of
the existing contractual relationship between the Lecturer
and the Centre on which she/he depends.
Chapter five. Special circumstances
Article 11. Maintaining professional status
After the contractual relationship between a Lecturer
and the Centre on which she or he depends comes to an
end, in exceptional circumstances judged on a case by
case basis, the University Board of Governors may decide
to maintain the teaching category attained by this lecturer
at the Ramon Llull University on a proposal from the
Centre itself, having listened to the Governing Board.
Article 12. Recovery of professional status
The professional status of professor or lecturer of
the Ramon Llull University that has been lost due to
expiry of the contractual relationship with the Centre
on which it depends may be recovered when the lecturer
is again contracted by the same Centre.
Article 13. Extraordinary approval
On a proposal by the Corresponding centre, and with
the favourable report of the Governing Board, the Rector
shall recognise a full professor or professor of another
University as a full professor or professor of the Ramon
Llull University.
First Additional Provision
According to the terms of these internal rules, working
days shall be taken to mean the working days listed
in the Ramon Llull University's calendar.
Second Additional Provision
Any questions of interpretation and doubts concerning
the application of these internal rules shall be resolved
by the Rector pursuant to Article 18 h) of the Statutes
of the Ramon Llull University.
NB: These Rules of procedure for access
to the Categories of Professors and Lecturers of the
Ramon Llull University entered into force on 31 October
1996 with the approval of the minutes of the Governing
Board of 5 July 1996. |
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