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The Principal, five members of the Executive Council of the Universitat and the dean of the Faculty, Rosa M. Bo Bonet listen to the interventions of the PAS of the centre.

The Principal and five members of the Executive Team have visited the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the Universitat de València in order to exchange impressions about the current and prospective needs of the centre.

The principal of the Universitat de València M. Vicenta Mestre and five members of the Executive Council (the vice-principal of Studies and Language Policy, Isabel Vázquez, the vice-principal of Academic Regulations and Teaching Staff, Ernest Cano, the vice-principal of Strategy, Quality and Information Technologies, Joaquín Aldás, the vice-principal of Equality, Diversity and Sustainability, Elena Martínez, and the manager Juan Vicente Climent) have participated in a meeting at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences with department directions, Teaching and Research Staff (PDI). Administration and Services Staff (PAS), a representation of the Student Council Branch of the Centre (ADR) and four members of the management team (the dean Rosa Mª Bo Bonet, the vice-dean of Studies and Academic Regulations Elena Cantarino, the vice-dean on Innovation and Quality Santiago Mengual, and the secretary Irene Verde).

Firstly, the Executive Council has held a meeting with the PAS of the Faculty, in which the attendees raised issues related to the size of the staff at the centre and their adaptation to current workloads, the suitability of IT tools to existing administrative management needs, and the training in this field. In this sense, the principal, the vice-principal of Strategy and the manager of the Universitat have pointed out the existing possibilities and limitations to be able to undertake the appropriate reforms.

Thus, Principal Mestre has reported that Crue Universidades Españolas, in which the principal leads the sectorial committee of teaching staff, is advocating on two issues (funding and the replacement rate), which she has described as "the most urgent issues for Spanish public universities".  Vice-Principal Joaquín Aldás, for his part, highlighted the existing receptiveness of the Executive Council to complaints regarding the updating of computer tools and reported on the existing plans for their improvement and modernisation, what he considered "necessary".

The manager of the university Juan Vicente Climent has reported on the acquired commitment for the extension and suitability of the training plans for the Administration Staff of the Universitat de València, as well as the commitment of the Council with the labour conciliation, a matter that he has qualified as "capital issue" with a close relation with the age of the staff and the external limitation of the replacement rate.

Secondly, a group of students from ADR, more specifically from the three degree courses offered at the centre (Pedagogy, Social Education and Philosophy), have raised doubts and possibilities of improvement in the areas of infrastructures, the organisation of spaces for study, the replacement of the teaching staff and the application of the language policy and equality guidelines of the Universitat. 

In relation to these issues, Climent has highlighted some of the actions carried out in the field of gardens, as well as the regulatory limitations, due to the unique heritage of the Blasco Ibáñez Campus, for the development of the rehabilitation plan linked to air conditioning.

On the other hand, Vice-Principal Ernest Cano highlighted the progress made in terms of the forecast of the teaching staff, both in structural terms and facing current situations (such as the outs in the PDI), despite the existing limitations for the replacement with stable staff perfectly adapted to the needs.

Vice-Principal Isabel Vázquez pointed out that the office of the vice-principal is working to improve coordination between the internship centre and the Faculty, to eliminate the costs related to them and to improve teacher training in the language field, taking into account the additional difficulties of adaptation for older staff.

Vice-Principal Elena Martínez, has introduced structural elements of the university's equality policy such as the Equality Plan, the Equality policies, the Violet Spaces and the Equality Unit, and has encouraged students to make use of these in situations of inequality, male chauvinism and discrimination.

Finally, the directors of departments and the management team of the centre have pointed out needs that coincide with the rest of the groups and centres, such as the improvement of infrastructures, and others of a unique nature such as the systems of human and economic resources managing at the Faculty, monitoring and higher communication in cases that took place in the centre in which advice from the office of the principal has been requested, the workloads of professors, conciliation measures, the tools for the relationship between PDI and PAS, and between the centre and the Executive Council, a point on which the members of the management team thanked the principal of the Universitat and her Executive Council for their presence, which was positively rated. Thus, the office of the dean has focused on three points, such as the revision of the restructuring of the PAS, the speeding up of the recruitment systems and the needs for space and adaptation of them related to the classrooms of the centre and the lecture buildings used by the Faculty.

In this sense, the Executive Council has reiterated some of the answers given in the meetings with the previous groups as the existing limitations of heritage protection and has informed them of the restructuring plan of spaces that is being promoted by the office of the vice-principal for Economy and Infrastructures, the willingness to continue increasing the fluidity of relations between the different centres and schools of the Universitat de València and its management team.

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El Consell de Direcció de la UV visita la Facultat de Filosofia i Ciències de l’Educació