Staff Development
The Objective of the Staff Development Service is to provide the staff
of University of Valencia and teachers from all educational
levels with on-going training, and ensure the continuity between initial
and on-going training. More specifically, the service acts as the coordination
means between University of Valencia and non-university educational
instances as far as staff development and education research are concerned.
Quality and Development of Higher Education. It has
three independent areas:
- Detection of needs and aspects related to university education
quality. Analyses of specific variables are carried out
from the perspective of the different degrees to assess education
quality; the recommendations in the annual lecturer evaluation report
prepared by the Universitat's Evaluation Commission are also studied.
- Lecturer initial training. The basic goal is to
make lecturers, in particular recently employed ones, familiar with
the structure and culture of Universitat and university education aspects.
- Lecturer ongoing training. This training is addressed
to Universitat lecturers and aims at providing them with training and
information in order to enhance their teaching. It includes both face-to-face
courses and specific distance courses through the web.
Ongoing training for Universitat service and administration
staff Its mission is to design and develop a training supply
aimed at improving the professional skills of the administration
staff and achieving higher quality standards, fostering their professional
development and promotion prospects.
Coordination and training of teachers of infant, primary,
and adult education. This section designs and offers a training
supply to meet the needs for scientific and pedagogical upgrade of
teachers of infant, primary, and adult education teachers. They also
disseminate among the teacher community the results of educational
research conducted at Universitat and non-university centres.
COU and Access Tests Coordination. Its objective
is three-fold: coordinate the initial training of secondary education
teachers, establish the necessary coordination links between Universitat
and the secondary level, and design a training supply for the scientific
and pedagogical upgrade of secondary education teachers. Together with
the Student Service, this section organises the university access tests.
STAFF DEVELOPMENT SERVICE
C. Amadeu de Savoia, 14
46010 València
Tel.: 96 339 50 00
Fax: 96 339 50 02
E-mail: sfp@uv.es
Web: www.uv.es/sfp
Occupational health and safety and environmental quality
The Department of Health, Safety, and Environmental Quality
was set up with a view to achieving coherence between health and safety
activities and the institutional environmental policy.
Health and Safety encompasses all human and material resources
needed for the development of actions guaranteeing the safety and health
of the Universitat staff. The department also advises and supports the
university community in promoting a prevention culture.
University of Valencia integrates all the legally
established specialties: health surveillance and control, occupational
safety, industrial hygiene and ergonomics, and applied psychosociology.
These disciplines are developed by specialised professionals who work
in a coordinated way.
As far as health surveillance and control are regarded,
a number of Occupational Health departments based at each campus take
preventative actions to ensure the health of the university community,
and provide care in cases of common disease, vaccination campaigns, training
and information schemes, etc.
Students under 28 not holding a social security card are
entitled to school insurance, which covers the medical, pharmaceutical,
and rehabilitation care in accidents related to school activities. Aid
is also foreseen for students suffering a family misfortune. The enrolment
fee includes a small amount for the school insurance.
As to the Environment Area, the Department of Safety, Health,
and Environmental Quality fosters and coordinates all types of initiatives
causing University of Valencia to ponder about its environmental
position and to act accordingly in its various roles as the educator of
future professionals, as a research centre, a consumer of goods and services,
the owner of buildings, gardens, and land, the disseminator of knowledge
in society, and a social referent and example.
An Advisory Commission for the Environment has been created
to study the repercussions of the environment on education at all levels
(degrees, post-graduate studies), departmental research, and staff development
in Universitat.
HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY DEPARTMENT
Av.
Blasco Ibáñez, 13
46010 València
Tel.: 96 398 33 01
Fax: 96 386 44 02
Web: www.uv.es/DSSQA
Analysis and planning
This general university service is dependent on the Management Department
administratively and on the Department of Finances and Administration
operationally. Its goal is to analyse the operation and structure of
University of Valencia and to promote measures and pluri-annual
actions plans by means of adequate reports.
It offers the following
services:
- Collection of statistical data.
- Information dissemination (statistics for external organisations,
etc.).
- Production of documents, studies, and reports for the managing
bodies.
- Production of tools designed to enhance management (distributive
economic, academic, and resource models).
- Operation and maintenance of SAPiència: information system
for the management of UV.
- Analysis of the organisational structure (process maps, organisation
charts, etc.).
- Production and implementation of management and strategic management
tools (overall reporting chart, objective-based management commitment,
service charts, etc.).
ANALYSIS AND PLANNING SERVICE
Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 13
46010 València
Tel.: 96 386 42 04
Fax: 96 386 44 58
E-mail: sap@uv.es
Web: www.uv.es/sap
Information Systems Department
The Information Systems Department includes all human and material
resources made available to the different university groups.
Its mission is to run, maintain, and upgrade computer resources so
that the managers, administrators, lecturers, and researchers of UV
can be supported adequately. The Service has recently installed a double-ring
dark fibre network to interconnect the three campuses (Burjassot, Blasco
Ibáñez, Tarongers) and the Nau building. The system ensures 10
Gbits/s interconnectivity using the university's resources,
not having to use external links. This new installation makes University of Valencia the first European university to enjoy these networking
facilities with a band width 70 times greater than the current one.
Services
These are the services the Information Systems Department provides:
Accounting, E-mail, Forum and mailing lists, Virtual secretary, Programme
distribution, Virtual disk and web spaces, Networking, Applications,
Data use, Intensive computation systems, Library management system
Latest developments in the application of information technologies
University of Valencia makes great efforts in the field of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve teaching
methods and information systems.
As from academic year 2004-05, information systems will ensure access
to the educational offer through the computer network, including subjects,
timetables, and exam calendars.
All Universitat students will have access to a range of computer and
network services such as quick, reliable, and safe e-mail, web interface
(web mail), your own website space, disk space, a virtual secretary,
and the virtual classroom. Access to all these services can be gained
from https://correu.uv.es
To use the personalised services, each student is given a user name
and a password, which will also be used to enter the computer rooms
in the centres and campuses.
The user name and the password are essential to key processes like
enrolment or self-enrolment. For information on the process and other
aspects, please visit the student portal www.uv.es/portalumne
Information Systems Department
C. Dr. Moliner, 50
46100 Burjassot
Tel.: 96 354 43 10
Fax: 96 354 42 00
E-mail: si@uv.es
Web: www.uv.es/siuv
Quality and evaluation
The Education Evaluation and Diagnosis Office (GADE) is responsible
for the management of the different quality assessment and improvement
processes to which University of Valencia is committed.
Evalution in our university does not only involve teaching;
it involves the whole of the institution. In recent years, quality
assessment in universities has become a priority in the European university
policy. University of Valencia is not unfamiliar with this
approach. For some time now, a broad and complex evaluation process
has been implemented with a view to improving the quality of education
and research, and the management of the services. Specifically, GADE
carries out its tasks in different areas:
- Institutional assessment. The main goal is to promote
evaluation processes favouring the ongoing improvement of higher education.
UV’s interest in improving has caused it to cooperate with the
National Agency for Quality and Accreditation Evaluation (ANECA). GADE
coordinates and offers technical support to the degrees participating
in this process.
- Accreditation programme. In this programme, University of Valencia cooperates with ANECA to ensure all studies leading
to an official qualification in Spain meet the quality standards. In
this regard, GADE works with the different qualifications to prepare
the future accreditation processes.
– PAMRA (Academic performance evaluation and improvement
plan). This pan is being developed by University of Valencia.
Its goal is to analyse the academic performance of 1st year students
to make improvements in the degrees.
- Quality evaluation plan for doctorate programmes. Its
objective is to improve the programmes at different stages: education,
research, and dissertation.
- Education evaluation in the 1st and 2nd cycles. A
few years ago, University of Valencia decided to evaluate its
teaching. Laid out in the Statutes, this initiative for the improvement
of teaching quality was indeed a pioneering one in Spain. The assessment
also means evaluating lecturers. The assessment helps lecturers improve
performance, and provides them with data, opinions, and suggestions
relative to teaching. Emphasis is also placed on administrative decision-making:
contract types, stability, salaries, etc.
At present the assessment of education relies on different information
sources: students, lecturers themselves, and departments. Specific
instruments are used for each source, with different but complementary
objectives.
- Post-graduate course evaluation. Jointly with the
University-Business Foundation ADEIT, a yearly post-graduate course
review is conducted (master courses, diplomas, certificates, etc.)
based on the students' evaluation.
- University extension course evaluation. The University
Extension Service is assisted by GADE in reviewing all the courses
in their different programmes. In addition to the above processes,
the Education Evaluation and Diagnosis Office takes more specific or
time-scheduled actions, e.g. university graduate follow-up, assistance
to evaluate Staff Development courses for the administration personnel
of Universitat, etc. It must be noted that GADE is available to the
whole university community, giving advice in quality assessment and
improvement processes and for quality to develop in all different university
areas and activities.
EDUCATION EVALUATION AND DIAGNOSIS OFFICE (GADE)
C. Amadeu de Savoia, 14
46010 València
Tel.: 96 339 50 20
Fax: 96 339 50 22
E-mail: gade@uv.es
Web: www.uv.es/gade
