Universitat Oberta De Catalunya Academic Year 2004-2005 Annual Report
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Academic Year 2004-2005 Annual Report 1994-2004 In the 2004-2005 academic year, the UOC came into its tenth year of existence. This has been a decade of innovation, efficacy, and quality in teaching, and it has seen the University attain international respect and prestige. This has also been the academic year of the approval of the general research framework of the UOC; of the continuation of the ambitious study on the information society, the Projecte Internet Catalunya Logo designed by the Management Staff (Internet Project Catalonia); and of the launch of the @teneu universitari to commemorate the UOC’s first 10 years (University @thenaeum) (the possibility of placing access to the University within the reach of a greater number of people). The evaluation surveys on the level of student satisfaction maintained a constant result: 4 out of 5. As regards graduates, 88% of those surveyed stated that their critical criteria and capacity had been enhanced, and 82% affirmed that they had improved in professional terms. Growth of the Offer at the Main Campus and at the Latin American Campus 18 17* 17* 16* 16 14** 14 13* 12** 12 10* 10** 10 9* 8* 8** 8 6* 6** 6 4* 4 2* 2 Summary 0 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-20032003-2004 2004-2005 5 Presentation * Main Campus ** Latin American Campus 7 UOC 7 Governing Bodies Evolution of the Number of UOC Students The UOC in Figures 2004-2005 9 Organisational Structure 14 Strategic Alliances 45,000 Recognised Degrees,Main Campus 17 40,707 15 International Scope Recognised Degrees, 40,000 Latin American Campus 14 16 Business Initiatives: The UOC Group Own Degrees 1 35,000 19 Activity Postgraduate Programmes 178 19 Training 30,000 Students 40,707 19 - Introduction UOC’s Teaching Staff 132 20 - First Cycle Studies; First-and-Second Cycle 25,000 Tutors 1,462 Studies; Second Cycle Studies; Own Degrees Counsellors 305 20,000 26 - Doctoral Programme Subjects Offered* 1,851 28 - Postgraduate Education Graduates with Recognised 15,000 Degrees 4,856 30 - Pre-university Training 10,000 Graduates with Master’s and 30 - Ateneu Postgraduate Degrees 6,382 31 - UOC Methodology 5,000 Diplomas in Advanced Studies 164 34 - The Virtual Library 200 Management Team 371 36 University Life 0 * Main Campus and Latin American Campus 36 - Community 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 38 - Face-to-face Meetings 42 - Student Services and Care 44 - The UOC Friends’ and Graduates’ Club Budget 46 Research Type Ordinary Investmens 54 Knowledge Dissemination and Transfer 2000 (1) 28,986,634.49 E 4,765,386.21 E 58 Solidarity Co-operation 2001 (1) 33,836,534.97 E 4,839,289.18 E E E 61 Financial Report 2004 2002 (1) 38,705,615.86 7,190,938.43 2003 (1) 40,900,382.75 E 9,407,455.37 E 67 Annex. Activities Involving Social 2004 (1) 46,223,443.22 E 7,709,872.89 E Dissemination 2005 (2) 46.741.145,26 E 5.119.724,93 E 75 UOC Support Centres and Support Points (1) Settled budgets, with amortisations (2) Approved budget, without amortisations 77 Contents “In the sphere of research, the UOC has made a commitment from the outset to quality. The Projecte Internet Catalunya (PIC), an ambitious study of the information society in Catalonia, in which the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) participates, is a clear example of the UOC’s desire to make research into one of its priorities”. Carles Solà Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the FUOC and Minister for Universities, Research and the Information Society “The ten years of the UOC are a success of the Catalan society, which has been able to understand and take up the advantages of a rigorous university education offer – one that is at the same time flexible and adequate to the necessary management of time and study space of those who have chosen us for the continuation of their education”. Gabriel Ferraté Rector of the UOC “The UOC provides a distance model based on the information and communications technologies (ICT), and it has provided access to university education to many people who otherwise would not have obtained it. This model, furthermore, has shown itself able to evolve and to adapt to the various needs of society and of widely-differing groups of students”. Josep Vilarasau Chairman of the FUOC Council Central Building UOC Presentation The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya In the 2004-2005 academic year the UOC In my presentations of the Reports of the contributes, year after year, to enriching entered its tenth year of existence, and from last two academic years of the UOC I the Catalan university system and to the time of the creation of this University, its sought to illuminate the international role giving it prestige. Its extensive academic innovative distance education model based of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, a offer allows fully efficient responses to be on the information and communications reference-point that has become all the given, with outstanding results, to the technologies has proved its efficacy and its stronger throughout the year 2004-2005. growing social demand for distance and ability to provide positive social outcomes. high-quality tertiary education. The The undertaking, I think, was right from its This year, I want to concentrate on one amount of time that must be devoted to inception. Throughout the last ten years of the foundational aspects of the UOC study is growing steadily, and very often the organic growth of the UOC has been –an aspect inseparable from its identity. people find that a single degree is not constant and sustained. The UOC has gone For this University provides a distance sufficient. The UOC has become an ideal well beyond the number of 11,000 model based on the information and instrument for making this increasingly- graduates, and in the 2004-2005 academic communications technologies (ICT), present social necessity attainable, while year the number of enrolments grew, as it and it has provided access to university guaranteeing standards of quality that had done in the previous year, by more than education to many people who otherwise would be hard to better. 16%: the number of students now stands would not have obtained it. This model, at more than forty thousand. furthermore, has shown itself able to The causes of this success must be Nonetheless, I have always believed that evolve and to adapt to the various needs sought in – to name but a few – an this success is not only of those who make of society and of widely-differing groups exemplary organisation, the quality of the up the teaching and management teams of of students. academic offer, and the use, worthy of the University, but also of the Catalan emulation, of the information and society from which the UOC derives, as This is a model which, in the second communications technologies. Another this society has been able to understand semester of the 2004-2005 course, main factor in this success is the and take up the advantages of a rigorous favoured the launch of the @teneu innovative spirit that has characterised university education offer – one that is at universitari pilot test. The @teneu the UOC from the outset and which the the same time flexible and adequate to the universitari made it possible for 589 University has applied insightfully not only necessary management of time and study people who did not have the requisites to the teaching model – adapted as it is space of those who have chosen us for the for access to the University, but who were to the necessities of the twenty-first continuation of their education. A new proof interested in broadening their knowledge, century – but also to its own network of this understanding between Catalan to undertake subjects offered at the UOC. organisation. society at large and our educational model The people who enrolled in the @teneu is the @teneu universitari (University attended lectures in these subjects in the In the sphere of research, the UOC has @thenaeum), which the UOC set in motion same rooms as did the remainder of made a commitment from the outset to in the second semester of the 2004-2005 the students and were provided with quality. The Projecte Internet Catalunya academic year. The @teneu is perhaps one the same academic material and calendar. (PIC), an ambitious study of the of the proposals that most clearly shows They were able to rely on the rigorous information society in Catalonia, in which our foundational identity and our condition and high-quality tutoring services that the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and vocation as an open university. It is a distinguish the UOC university model. participates, is a clear example of the question of making real what we imagine. UOC’s desire to make research into one In education, as in any other service This is the guiding thread that, almost activity, quality is not measured by what of its priorities. This fact, together with the imperceptibly, has vindicated the existence development of many other research and one believes one does, but rather by and the consistency of this University to what we are able to verify in the development undertakings and the firm which we began to give shape ten years intent of the University to promote free educational experience of our student- ago. Making the imagined real is what is clients: throughout the 2004-2005 software, justifies the full confidence and behind the @teneu: that citizens –any support that the government gives –and academic year, the levels of satisfaction citizen at all– should be able to accede to of UOC students remained stable, at will continue to give– to the UOC in order the University without previously-established to contribute to its expansion to the levels of about 4 out of 5, according to limitations, and to share the space, time, the results of evaluation surveys.