tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25026218756382273842024-03-13T10:46:11.001+01:00PhD on the Rise<a href="mailto:%20colectivo.doctorandos.catalunya@gmail.com">colectivo.doctorandos.catalunya@gmail.com</a> <br>
<small><a href="http://tutela400euroscat.blogspot.com/">Versió en Català</a><br><a href="http://tutela400euros.blogspot.com/">Versión en Castellano</a></small>Doctorandos de Catalunyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621560956038649552noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-30270716028488416252011-02-02T11:54:00.004+01:002011-02-02T12:25:11.344+01:001st General Assembly<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">All</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">young</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">researchers</span> in <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps"></span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">Catalonia are invited</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">on</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">Saturday</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">12</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">February</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">to join</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">the 1st</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">General</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">Assembly</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas">,</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">where</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">accompanied by a</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">good</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">orange juice</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">...</span><br /><br /><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">- We</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">will</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">review</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">the</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">latest developments</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">regarding</span> our <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">requests.</span><br /><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">- We will</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">inform</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps"></span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">about</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">what</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">is taking</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">place</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">right now</span><br /><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">- We will</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">debate</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">what kind of</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">future</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">we want</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas">.</span><br /><br /><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">See you</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">in</span> the "La Rimaia" educational/alternative space <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps atn">(</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas">Ronda</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">Sant Pau</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas">,</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">12</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas">)</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">on saturday the 12th,</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">10am</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">in the</span> <span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas" class="hps">morning</span><span title="Haz clic para obtener traducciones alternativas">!</span></span>Biólogo molecularhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872389643196988015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-21842593556287024702010-12-10T14:46:00.002+01:002010-12-10T15:32:31.802+01:00Next meeting with DGU: everyone is invited<span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">The next meeting between pre-docs, Directorate General of Universities (DGU) and vice chancellors of the universities in Catalonia will be held on Monday 13 December at 17:00 hours in the proceedings of the DGU.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span><span style="" title="">Although only four doctoral students will participate in the meeting, all the pre-docs of Catalunya will concentrate on 13 December from 16:30 to 17:30 h at the gates of the DGU (Via Laietana, 33), to make our voices heard just as </span><span title="">the beginning of the meeting </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">takes place</span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span title="">.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span title=""></span><span style="" title="">In order to contextualize this next meeting, the compromises that were reached in the previous session (November 4), are:</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* The DGU would provide calculations of the average cost of a graduate student for college, taking into account all types of pre-docs (PhD in science, humanities, from </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">centers </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">outside the university , etc.).</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* The DGU would answer about the possibility of consulting the budget reports and economic and social impact reports that preceed the price decree.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* The DGU would expose to the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia (which was scheduled to meet during this time between meetings with doctoral students) the pre-doc's request to modify the decree in effect by reviewing the increase in enrollment fees and instead applying</span><span style="" title=""> the same fee as the previous year plus the corresponding increase according to the limits established by the General Conference of University Policy (1.5% -5.5%).</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span><span style="" title="">From all this, today doctoral students have access to the costs per pre-doc calculated by the DGU in collaboration with (available <a href="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3aWMnYS1NyVNDAwMzE5YWYtYzY5MS00M2FmLTg1NWItYWRkOWZkOGQ5M2Rl&hl=en"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> here</span></a>).</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span><span style="" title="">Regarding the consult of the reports accompanying the decree by the pre-doc representatives, chances are they can not be consulted before the meeting takes place, as the DGU has granted the first appointment for consultation on 14 December (one day after the </span><span title="">meeting.)</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span title=""></span><span style="" title="">As things are, the pre-docs will attend the meeting:</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* With some dubious calculations of the annual per thesis for the universities that have been prepared today and not when the decree establishing public prices was being prepared.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* With a disturbing question: If the calculations of the costs of a doctorate have been developed to date, on what is based this setting of </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">annual registration</span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> to 400 euros ?</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* Without the chance of consulting the budget reports and economic and social impact reports of Decree 98/2010.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> </span><span style="" title="">* With the suspicion of a negative response by the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia as the possibility to modify the decree in effect.</span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title=""></span><span style="" title="">Even so, we will attend the meeting, since by all means at our disposal, we will continue to denounce the unlawful and unjustified increase in </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">doctoral </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="" title="">tuition fees that has taken place this year, the situation of unfairness compared to other regions of Spain </span><span title="">and to other universities. </span><span style="" title="">We will continue to denounce, in short, the most precarious situation to which this decree has brought us: the straw that finally breaks the camel.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-381122440229169672010-11-24T11:38:00.000+01:002010-11-24T11:38:56.110+01:00Sensitizing the Doctors<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="">Doctoral candidates of CMIMA have prepared a presentation to encourage debate within the research centers and departments and to sensitize the research doctors about the issue of fees as a "tip of iceberg" of the deficient regulation and funding of Spanish and Catalan research.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title=""></span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title=""></span><span title="">The pre-docs have shared their presentation on <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/nkorta86/presentacion-doctorandos2">THIS LINK</a></b> and encourage doctoral students in all schools to use it to initiate discussions in their environments. </span><span title="">The research population at all levels should discuss and take positions in order to make possible any serious progress in the many aspects of research that require improvement. </span><span title="">Otherwise, the investment that society does in research not only will remain weak, but will become useless and eventually disappear.</span></span></div>Doctorandos de Catalunyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621560956038649552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-71807087169449525872010-11-24T09:51:00.002+01:002010-11-24T09:52:53.619+01:00Diagonal Campus Demonstrations<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:usefelayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The local assembly of doctoral candidates of local mobilization calls Diagonal Campus stud next Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 November.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Collecting of signatures will be made, as well as distribution of leaflets, while there will be also symbollically be offered orange juice to anyone approaching, so they can get to know about the situation and collect voluntary financial contributions to the rates with a bank.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dates and locations are:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Wednesday 25/11: Exit the metro station Palau Reial from 8:00 to 10:30 h.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thursday 26/11: front of the building of the campus dining halls Diagonal from 13:00 to 15:00</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Everyone is welcome.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">To assist with the organization: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://groups.google.com/group/drecerca/browse_thread/thread/e0fb2a4e416edd9f?hl=es#">HERE</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-61049051761274902422010-11-24T09:49:00.000+01:002010-11-24T09:50:39.934+01:00Wednesday November 24 Assembly<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:usefelayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The predoctoral collective new assembly agreed for a new assembly on next Wednesday 24/11 in class B1 of the historical building of the UB at Universitat square, at 19:00 h, with the following provisional agenda:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Agenda</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">1. Summary of the current situation regarding the registration</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Ombudsman</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Catalan universities</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Unions (CCOO)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Meeting with DGU and universities</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">2. Next Steps</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- External contacts</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Appearance in the media (debates, etc.)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Demonstrations:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Concentrations</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Actions on college campuses</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- Other suggestions?</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">3. Allocation of tasks to working groups.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-80081790581352853832010-10-20T16:35:00.003+02:002010-10-20T16:39:05.474+02:00Protest gathering Hospital de St. Pau<div id=":114" class="ii gt"><div id=":zl"><div lang="ES"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB" >This Thursday, 21st of October, the “<a href="http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/forum-de-recerca-biomedica-uab-cei-1254898790058.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Forum de Investigacion Biomedica UAB-CEI</span></a>” will be held in the “<a href="http://www.uabcampus.com/cast/index_vert3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Casa de la Convalescencia</span></a>” which is part of the UAB on the grounds of the Hospital de St. Pau in Barcelona. Participants are the Minister of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Marina Geli) and the Minister of Innovation of Universities and Enterprises (Josep Huguet).</span></span> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB" > In order to reinforce the manifest, there will be a protest gathering from 12h to 13h which will be timed with the presence of Mr. Huguet. The assisting people are asked to wear orange clothing (the colour represents the precarious scientist). The plan is to read out loud the manifest and hand a copy to Mr. Huguet. Furthermore, a basket with oranges and a juice squeezer will be given to the Minister as representation of the current situation of the PhD students working as researchers. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Everybody willing to attend is invited to participate, preferably wearing orange clothing.</span></span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span></span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB" >Please check back for updated time before going there.</span></span></p> </div> </div> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-22760271614836679782010-10-18T17:49:00.003+02:002010-10-18T17:54:30.292+02:00Informative Meeting Parc CientíficThere will be an informal and informative meeting on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday</span>, October 20th, opened to the whole PCB Community. It will take place at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">IRB</span> Terrace, from <span style="font-weight: bold;">10:30</span>am. Past and future actions will be discussed, and the collection of signatures to support the Manifest will begin.<br /><br />Also, there is another meeting called for tomorrow, Tuesday, at 1pm at Aula 22 of the Faculty of Biology, UB.<br /><br />We hope to see you all there!Doctorandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037620359531150783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-6503432416842368082010-10-14T14:50:00.004+02:002010-10-14T16:11:09.128+02:00The UPF letter sent<div style="text-align: justify;">The collective at Universitat Pompeu Fabra has finally sent today its complaint letter, which they have been preparing lately and about which this <a href="http://tutela400euros.blogspot.com/2010/10/la-protesta-de-la-upf.html">blog informed in its Spanish version</a> -the English translation is in preparation and will be posted for the record.<br /><br />A hundred and twenty seven members of the Biomedicine Doctorate Programme at UPF have adhered to the text, representing only one of the multiple research centers with an active collective opposing the <a href="http://tutela400eurosen.blogspot.com/2010/10/thesis-supervision-fees-on-rise.html">rise of thesis supervision fees</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151819271503946">other problems of predoctoral research at Catalonia</a>.<br /><br />This blog will follow closely the effects of this UPF text, which is being used as a model at many other centers and the contents of which will predictably be included in any collective complaint of predoctoral researchers as a whole.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-38778661901449950272010-10-14T07:51:00.002+02:002010-10-14T08:36:15.064+02:00D-Recerca gets explanations from DIUE<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://groups.google.es/group/drecerca/browse_thread/thread/5fd53992717a71fd">Here is linked</a> the mailing list on our theme at <a href="http://d-recerca.org/tiki-index.php">D-Recerca</a>, the Association of Graduate Students and Research Fellows of Catalonia. Readers are encouraged to check it and participate in its activities; it must not be forgotten that D-Recerca is the association representing most predoctoral researchers in Catalonia.<br /><br />This post's highlight goes to a meeting between a representation of D-Recerca and the Generalitat de Catalunya Department for Innovation, Universities and Enterprise (DIUE) Director General, Josep Rives.<br /><br />About the rise of the thesis supervision fees, the meeting report states:<br /><br /><blockquote>The reason given to explain this rise of 300% in doctorate fees is the adaptation to the European Higher Education Area. Since this year is the first in which the Bologna Accord is implemented in studies from the first course, they have wanted to update the third degree as well. They state that this price of 400€ is to cover expenses of the supervision service and bibliographical fonts access. We complained about the supervision service being symbolic in all cases and hence it is not justifiable to charge so much money giving nothing in exchange*. We were told then that we would have to address the vice-chancellery for research at each university and demand there the services corresponding to the degree, like a better offer of teachings and advisory services.<br />But yes, students registered for PhD. programmes previous to the new plan will be charged just the previous fees.<br /></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Readers are encouraged to question if they use these services as predoctoral researchers, if they want to have to claim them and if they are willing to pay more today than they did yesterday for something that they have to make a claim to get improved, but mainly for something that they probably didn't ask to improve, least to become so expensive.<br /><br />About what is paid in each programme, it seems that students in the DEA pathway are in a better position, although there's some contradictory information running around about this point. Any readers registered for a DEA programme and being charged the 400€ fee are welcome to report that in the comments section.<br /><br />* A comment in the Spanish version reveals yet another contradiction in the explanation of the fee as covering bibliographical access and the <a href="http://blocfiq.ub.edu/2010/09/17/nova-llicencia-nacional-per-a-isi-web-of-knowledge/">actual reduction of bibliographical access</a> for Spanish universities by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology in purchasing a cheaper license for ISI Web of Knowledge this year.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-57767915065753413202010-10-13T18:20:00.000+02:002010-10-13T18:20:57.345+02:00Spreading the word with Humour<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-A2zCSvFqPk3Dt5gI8x0Zhz_OaxP2K7aShd5TvRizkIzQeuF1vRkSxgZFwyTu-k4opZk9UJ3C_EX-EIax4jUi8oHXjvrPMD1nhyXcw4UOnN-ew4JNnLE3KC4Utv0mvu3TdDPc9Y7vY574/s1600/Motivacion-Aro.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525738653830792994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-A2zCSvFqPk3Dt5gI8x0Zhz_OaxP2K7aShd5TvRizkIzQeuF1vRkSxgZFwyTu-k4opZk9UJ3C_EX-EIax4jUi8oHXjvrPMD1nhyXcw4UOnN-ew4JNnLE3KC4Utv0mvu3TdDPc9Y7vY574/s400/Motivacion-Aro.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 434px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 526px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> TRANSLATION - THESIS SUPERVISION FEE GOES UP TO 380%. JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS. 'CAUSE YOU DON'T MIND PAYING FOR WORKING.</span></div><br />
Predoctoral researchers at the Barcelona Science Park have decided to express their disagreement with the increase of thesis supervision fees to 400€ with a parody motivational poster.<br />
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This icon of the situtation is reproduced here for the readers to do whatever they consider with it. Have you seen any other similar posters? Have you made any you want to share? You can send it to this blog's feedback e-mail:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">colectivo.doctorandos.catalunya@gmail.com</div>Doctorandos de Catalunyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621560956038649552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-92035547528888032122010-10-13T18:17:00.000+02:002010-10-13T18:17:14.033+02:00The case at UPC<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Pre</span>-doctoral <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">researchers</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">UPC</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">started</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">reacting</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">somewhat</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">before</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">alarm</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">over</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">this</span> blog's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">topic</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">was</span> general. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">They</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">contacted</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">the</span> vice-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">chancellor</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Scientific</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Policies</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Xavier</span> Gil <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Mur</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">assistant</span> vice-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">chancellor</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Research</span>, Ana Isabel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Pérez</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Neira</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">expressing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">their</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">unrest</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">over</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">rise</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">thesis</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">supervision</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">fee</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">up</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">to</span> 400€.<br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Next</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">there</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">is</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">translation</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">answer</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">letter</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">they</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">got</span>:<br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">Dear</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">Jordi</span>,<br />
<blockquote><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">In</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">reference</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">letter</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">about</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">increase</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">thesis</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">supervision</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">fee</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">we</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">agree</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">increase</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77">fee</span> has <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">high</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">In</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81">front</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83">this</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84">fact</span>, I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85">must</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86">tell</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89">the</span> Social <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_90">Council</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93">UPC</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94">approved</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97">academic</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98">year</span> 2010-2011 a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99">fee</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100">of</span> 400 euros <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102">concept</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104">thesis</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105">supervision</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106">defense</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108">evaluation</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109">altogether</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110">At</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111">other</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112">universities</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114">interpetation</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115">was</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117">apply</span> 400 euros <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119">each</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120">one</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_122">these</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123">concepts</span>, so <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124">anyone</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125">registering</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126">only</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_127">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128">thesis</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129">defense</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131">evaluation</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132">will</span> be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133">charged</span> another 400 euros. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135">This</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138">true</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_140">UPC</span>.<br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141">We</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142">thank</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143">you</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145">your</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146">letter</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_147">Xavier</span> Gil <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_148">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_149">complain</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_150">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_151">Generalitat</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_152">both</span> about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_154">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_155">increase</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_156">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_157">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_158">fee</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_159">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_160">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_161">fact</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_162">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_163">FPU</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_164">or</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_165">FPI</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_166">fellows</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_167">have</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_168">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_169">pay</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_170">while</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_171">UPC</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_172">FI</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_173">or</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_174">contracted</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_175">by</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_176">UPC</span> don't.<br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_177">Kind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_178">regards</span>,<br />
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Ana <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_179">Pérez</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_180">Neira</span></span><br />
<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_181">Vre</span></span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_182">Adj</span></span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_183">investigación</span><br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_184">Xavier</span></span> Gil<br />
<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_185">Vre</span></span>. Política Científica</blockquote></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_186">One</span> has <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_187">to</span> be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_188">thankful</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_189">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_190">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_191">UPC</span> vice-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_192">chancellors</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_193">agreeing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_194">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_195">objective</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_196">facts</span>, as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_197">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_198">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_199">increase</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_200">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_201">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_202">tax</span> has <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_203">been</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_204">high</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_205">It</span> can be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_206">trusted</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_207">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_208">they</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_209">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_210">also</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_211">agree</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_212">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_213">other</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_214">obvious</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_215">facts</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_216">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_217">which</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_218">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_219">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_220">impossible</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_221">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_222">disagree</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_223">without</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_224">falling</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_225">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_226">an</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_227">evident</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_228">mistake</span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_229">Besides</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_230">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_231">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_232">sold</span> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_233">something</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_234">good</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_235">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_236">UPC</span> has <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_237">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_238">pushed</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_239">into</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_240">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_241">domains</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_242">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_243">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_244">dubious</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_245">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_246">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_247">application</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_248">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_249">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_250">decree</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_251">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_252">lifts</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_253">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_254">fees</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_255">making</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_256">some</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_257">pay</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_258">double</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_259">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_260">what</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_261">already</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_262">seems</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_263">senseless</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_264">amount</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_265">It</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_266">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_267">said</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_268">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_269">other</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_270">universities</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_271">have</span> done so. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_272">It</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_273">seems</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_274">logical</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_275">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_276">wonder</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_277">which</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_278">those</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_279">universities</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_280">that</span> don't <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_281">show</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_282">even</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_283">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_284">scarce</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_285">solidarity</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_286">with</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_287">predoctoral</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_288">researchers</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_289">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_290">the</span> social <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_291">council</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_292">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_293">UPC</span> has <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_294">displayed</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_295">If</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_296">any</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_297">reader</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_298">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_299">this</span> blog <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_300">knows</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_301">which</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_302">they</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_303">communicating</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_304">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_305">in</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_306">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_307">comments</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_308">will</span> be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_309">welcome</span>.<br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_310">The</span> vice-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_311">chancellor</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_312">for</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_313">Scientific</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_314">Policies</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_315">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_316">UPC</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_317">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_318">carry</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_319">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_320">complaint</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_321">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_322">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_323">predoctoral</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_324">researchers</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_325">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_326">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_327">Generalitat</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_328">There</span>'s no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_329">doubt</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_330">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_331">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_332">eyes</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_333">of</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_334">the</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_335">world</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_336">will</span> be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_337">put</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_338">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_339">that</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_340">complaint</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_341">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_342">its</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_343">consequences</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_344">This</span> blog <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_345">will</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_346">inform</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_347">on</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_348">any</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_349">news</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_350">about</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_351">this</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_352">matter</span>.</div>Doctorandos de Catalunyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621560956038649552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-22463370368753142192010-10-13T18:15:00.002+02:002010-10-13T18:15:59.425+02:00Thesis supervision fees on the rise<div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES"> It is the time of the year for PhD. registration at Catalan universities and predoctoral researchers are being asked to pay a thesis supervision fee of 400 euros. These prices are fixed autonomously by the Generalitat de Catalunya - the Catalan autonomous government - and it has decided to increase them to a 380,95% of last year's fees (from 105€ payed last year to the current 400€).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES">Besides the obvious and most serious economic inconvenience this is going to cause for many if not all predoctoral researchers, these fees are absolutely unjustified, unjustifiable and abusive. On one hand they are abusive because the price of a service is being raised arbitrarily with no improvement of the service at all. On the other hand they are the last straw in the story of charging for a service that many consider almost non-existent.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES">Furthermore, since such high fees are being introduced only in Catalonia, they constitute an unfair disadvantage of the predoctoral researchers in Catalonia in front of the ones in the rest of Spain.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, these fees contribute to put annual registration out of the reach of the average predoctoral researcher and come to represent the fact that formal public postgraduate education is being reserved by the Generalitat, with an aid in the passivity of Catalan universities, for the economically privilegiate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even more, these fees are but a direct aggression to research, given that many candidates considering to pursue a PhD. will choose other options coming without a "droit de signeur" that in practice translates into paying for working, for carrying out a valuable work that contributes to the benefit and financial resources of research groups.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is enough already of unfairly charging highly qualified workers that have invested their time, effort and money in being able to work for the good of society and in most cases with remarkably low incomes. Are predoctoral researchers being punished for giving their best to science and society?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since all this has been carried out discreetly by the Generalitat and the Catalan universities, the only - though with absolute credibility - information about this matter is the DOGC - the official journal of the Generalitat de Catalunya, in its Catalan acronym. The editions that set the fees for <a href="http://www.gencat.cat/diari_c/5676/10195043.htm">this year</a> and the <a href="http://www.gencat.cat/diari_c/5422/09189014.htm">past year</a> are linked here, for the information and fair indignation of every predoctoral researcher.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The collective of predoctoral researchers of Catalonia has in this blog a place to centralize information from the different local groups that have started to express their disconformity with this government action and their adhesion to the initiatives that are starting to come from groups as <a href="http://d-recerca.org/tiki-index.php">D-Recerca </a>and the diverse predoctoral researchers collectives of research institutes and universities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Readers are encouraged to think about these questions:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How much does it cost for universities to keep predoctoral researchers academic files?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What do predoctoral researchers get in exchange for the newly introduced payment of 400€?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will they get what they are suppoused to? With wich warranties?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is this imposed fee fair?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is that money used for in the end?</div>Doctorandos de Catalunyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621560956038649552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502621875638227384.post-8614872106007130652010-10-13T18:14:00.001+02:002010-10-13T18:27:13.228+02:00D-Recerca Informative Meeting<div style="text-align: justify;">A meeting with the aim of deciding the steps to take in trying to stop the rise of registration fees approved by Generalitat de Catalunya has been planned for tomorrow thursday, <span style="font-weight: bold;">October the 14th</span>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The meeting has been organized by the collective <a href="http://groups.google.es/group/drecerca/browse_thread/thread/57470346843ae04c">D-recerca</a> and will be held at the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Estudiantil</span>" pub, at Plaça Universitat (metro Universitat) from <span style="font-weight: bold;">19h</span>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This blog supports this event and all readers are encouraged to attend. It will be a nice occasion to get informed about the current situation and how to contribute to its change.</div>Doctorandos de Catalunyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08621560956038649552noreply@blogger.com0