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The rector of the University of Murcia, José Orihuela, said today that "we are all frightened by the possibility that our university system is catastrophically collapse into an abyss of economic strangulation."
Orihuela has made these statements at the opening ceremony of the University and Society Forum, held in Murcia educational institution to mark its centenary and is attended by over thirty Rectors of Spanish universities.
For the rector of the University of Murcia, "it is equally alarming that the teaching and research staff and administration and services of public universities continued to decline, unlike what happens in private, where, in fact, increases ".
At another point in his speech he said that "I worry about the persistence of an underlying ideology that the university is not taken as an engine of productive change."
He added that "I also find it regrettable that has induced an unnecessary dialectic between public and merely private university because some people have found particular benefits and then statutory channels to create structures suction public resources built up painstakingly over decades."
"For our region we have added-we have been suffering for some time, and the recent conflict expressed by our students of Health Sciences is a paradigmatic example; I'm proud, in any event, attend this struggle for the collective" .
For the rector, "We ended up being held hostage by control bodies that have not agreed and regional powers that have proven not believe in our mission, all with the inaction of the central government".
Orihuela has also said that "vindicate, here and now, a hundred years after our start, the dignity of our university and its defense with a plea against the commercialism of ensuring oversizing Spanish university system."
The forum has also intervened the director, Federico Gutiérrez-Solana, who has highlighted the lack of commitment that exists on the part of public administrations with universities, and added that as a result of cuts have them back ten years.
Research Director of the Valencian Institute of Economic Research, Francisco Perez, has analyzed the social value of the University, to highlight that "the effort made in them is profitable," adding that "university education is fundamental for achieving specialists ".
He has exhibited in other time university employee remuneration is 40 percent above average and explained that we have less qualified than other countries because we also supply these jobs is less workers.
Finally he stressed that what society invests in training its graduates is always profitable.
In the opening act he has also involved the Minister of Education and Universities, Maribel Sanchez-Mora, who has highlighted the role that the University of Murcia has developed in the growth of the region.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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