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USC warned that not investing in education is “very expensive”
The rector of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostable (USC), Juan Casers Long, said at the graduation ceremony of reading the inaugural address of the academic year 2011-2012 that not investing in education is a performance “expensive” to society at the same time has warned of the “risk of losing an entire generation of graduates.”
The reading of the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the course – held Monday at the Noble Hall of Compostable Paso de Fonseca – has been borne by the Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Margarita Led Andiron. In addition to the management team of the university, the ceremony was also attended by the mayor of Santiago, Gerardo Coned Road and President of the Deputation de A Corunna, Diego Calve, among other officials.
Casers long noted in his speech that “the country cannot take the risk of losing a generation of talent or a decrease in research activities” and that “countries and institutions with which it competes continue to invest significantly in college.” ”If we invest in education is expensive, not investing is very expensive,” she added.
“The training and smart growth requires a long-term commitment to ensure sufficient funding from public administrations,” stressed the president of Compostable, who also said that the college is in a “strange situation” as that “enjoys the confidence of society” but “calls into question the efficiency and effectiveness of their work, they distrust their management capacity, and has to face a reduction in financial resources.”
The chancellor has said that at this time “is important” to establish “how the university can contribute to addressing the future of uncertainty which is,” and noted that “given the current economy, based on the development of knowledge, require additional public funding to ensure the quality of teaching and research.”
“DISAPPEARANCE OF PEOPLE WELL TRAINED”
The occasion was the first time reading the inaugural address belonged to the Faculty of Communication given at the 20th anniversary since its inception. Therefore, Professor Margarita Led, the first dean of the faculty, used his speech – which has offered a lecture on photography Galicia – to make a journey over two decades of graduates, while denounced the situation in which they live today, “forcing them to go abroad.”
“I’m not saying anything new when I place the most serious problem of the relationship between universities and society in the disappearance of highly trained individuals to further, as we are about being alone,” the professor said, paraphrasing the poet Manuel Antonio. Also, has called the Led Andiron Galician case of “paradoxical” because “while maintaining a high investment in training, surprising the precarious social use of it.”
The professor has denounced the “little incorporation” of graduates into the workforce and has illustrated his words with data from the last report of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE), which shows that “59 percent of graduates Journalism of the last five promotions are unemployed.”
ANNUAL REPORT AND BADGES FONSECA.
During the ceremony, the general secretary of the USC, Lourdes Nona, read out the memory of the 2010-2011 academic years. Among other things, noted that the workforce was composed of 32,369 students, 2223 teachers and 1,274 administrative and service workers, in addition to 63 official first and second degrees, all in the process of extinction to be replaced by 48 undergraduate degrees.
Also, there has been delivery of the badges Fonseca to 73 members of the university community for over 30 years at USC. Of these, 17 are in the professional management staff and services, while the remaining part of the teaching and research staff of the college Compostable.