Accreditation related to the hiring of teaching staff by Canarian Universities

Presentation

The assessment required for the recruitment of teachers in public universities canary in the terms provided for in Articles 50.51 and 52 of the Organic Law of Universities and the autonomic Decree 140/2002 of October 7, must be performed by the Agency Canarian quality assessment and accreditation University (ACECAU) under the protocol to this effect adopted by its Governing Council.

The convocation of applications for accreditation, prior to the hiring of teaching staff by Canarian universities, is kept open by ACECAU the whole year. Throughout the year, there are three sessions for the assessment applications.

Procedures: general descrption of the assessment process

Procedure: General description of the assessment process

Procedure: On- line (non on-site)

ACECAU established an electronic headquarters called “Virtual Office” to allow our users to process on-line, their Teaching Staff Accreditation.

With this new electronic technology, one will be able to know instantly the process or stage of the application.

Virtual Office Access.

On-site Procedure

 1. Application form:

The application form (attached document II (edition:04) has to be addressed to the director of ACECAU and it must be indicated the contractual modality or modalities we are applying for (collaborator teacher, doctor assistant, hired doctor teacher type 1 and hired doctor teacher type 2).

2. The application should be accompanied by

• A photocopy of the applicant’s identity card.
• Supporting documents of the contractual or administrative link to Canarian universities with the duration of this contract (according to the Organic Law 6/2001, 21 December).
• Curriculum vitae according to the standardized model of the director  of ACECAU’s resolution.

 - Word document for the curriculum doctor assistant.

 - Word document for the curriculum collaborator.

 - Word document for the curriculum hired doctor type 1.

 - Word document for the curriculum hired doctor type 2.

• Document of declaration of responsibility (Edition:04). Declaration of the veracity of the given documents.
• The application forms as well as the rest of documents, which can be submitted as an original or a copy previously compared to the original one by those Registers established in the article 38.5 of law30/1992, about the legal regime of Public Administration and the Common Administrative procedures, a copy for each of the contractual figures from whom we want to obtain the assessment. 3. When and where to apply:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Documentation presented for the assessment must be in order and listed according to the cited merits in the   Self-assessment memory.

Instructions for the application form

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3. When and where to apply

• Application forms can be submitted during the whole year, except in August.
• Applications must be sent to:

              - Registro de Educación. ACECAU Avda. Buenos Aires, 5, planta 5ª, Edif. Tres Mayo. 38071 S/C deTenerife.             

              - The registers of Canarian Universities

              - Other registers regulated by decree 164/1994, 29 July (B.O.C. nº102 de 19.8.94)

Instructions of procedures:

The assessment of merits will follow the procedures established in:

• The protocol approved by the Governing bodies of ACECAU, according to the current legislation (LOU et Autonomic decrees) which contains the general criteria which allow the evaluation of those people interested at attending the call for posts in the universities of the Canaries.
• The decree 140/2002, from 7 October about the status of hired teaching and research staff and about the complementary compensation of teachers from Canarian Universities.
• Resolution dated 27 July 2004, by means of which are established the interpretative criteria of the protocol for the evaluation of application forms for the accreditation in order to be hired by Canarian Universities.
• Order dated 6 august 2004 by means of which the procedure of evaluation before hiring teacher staff by Canarian universities is regulated. 

The aspects to be valued in the curriculum of applicants are those related to their academic formation: research activities, teaching experience and formation, professional experience and other aspects which haven’t been previously considered according to the following rules:

1. The committee of experts will assess the application forms for every kind of contract according to the lookup tables shown in protocol.

2. In order to get a positive assessment the applicant must reach a global score equal or superior to 50 points.

For the accreditation as an assistant teacher doctor, or as a hired doctor type1 or type2 it will be necessary to get a minimal of points in the following sections:

Doctor assistant

• Research activity: 1.Publications, patents, expositions, etc and 2.Conferences. IN section 1.2 to section 1.11, 2.1, and 2.2: the minimum total will be 5 points.

Hired Doctor Type 1

• Research activity: 1.Publications, conferences, expositions, etc. and 2.Conferences.In sections 1.3 to 1.12, 2.1, 2.2, the minimum total will be 10 points.
• Teaching activity: Teaching experience. In sections 2.4 to 2.9 :the total will be at least 12 points.

Hired doctor type 2

• Research activity: 1.Publications,conferences,expositions,etc. and 2.Conferences.In sections 1.3 to 1.12,2.1,2.2, the total will be at least 15 points.3.Involvement in research projects and contracts. In sections 3.1 to 3.4, the total will be at least 10 points.

Report of results:

• Report about the results of the assessment of Canarian university teaching staff throughout the year 2006.
• Report about the results got in the sessions of January 2007 about the assessment of the applications for the accreditation in order to hire teachers for Canarian public universities.
• Report about the results got in the sessions of 12 and 13 June 2007 about the assessment of the applications for the accreditation in order to hire teachers for Canarian public universities and the assessment of the applications of Research Experience.
• Report about the results got in the sessions of March 2008 about the assessment of the applications for the accreditation in order to hire teachers for Canarian public universities.
• Report about the results got in the sessions of October 2008 about the assessment of the applications for the accredtation in order to hire teachers for Canarian public universities.
• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la  sesión del 23 y 24 de marzo de 2009 sobre la evaluación de solicitudes de Acreditación de cara a la contratación del Profesorado de las Universidades públicas Canarias y de la Acreditación de la Experiencia Investigadora
• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 29 y 30 de octubre de 2009 sobre la evaluación de solicitudes de Acreditación de cara a la contratación del Profesorado de las Universidades públicas Canarias y de la Acreditación de la Experiencia Investigadora.
• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 18 y 19 marzo de 2010 sobre la evaluación de solicitudes de Acreditación de cara a la contratación del profesorado de las Universidades públicas Canarias y de la Acreditación de la Experiencia Investigadora.
• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del  21 y 22 junio de 2010 sobre la evaluación de solicitudes de Acreditación del profesorado de as Universidades públicas Canarias.  

• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 18 de noviembre 2010 sobre la evaluación de solicitudes de Acreditación del profesorado de las Universidades públicas Canarias.

• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 31 de marzo 2011 sobre la Evaluación de las solicitudes de Acreditación del Profesorado previas a su contratación por las Universidades canarias y para la experiencia investigadora

• Informe  sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 24 de junio 2011 sobre la evaluación de las solcitudes de Acreditación del profesorado previas a su contratación por las universidades canarias. 

• Informe  sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 28 de noviembre 2011 sobre la evaluación de las solcitudes de Acreditación del profesorado previas a su contratación por las universidades canarias y Acreditación de de la Experiencia Investigadora.

• Informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 21 y 22 de junio de 2012 sobre la evaluación de las solicitudes de Acreditación del profesorado previas a su contratación por las universidades canarias y Acreditación de la Experiencia Investigadora.

• informe sobre los resultados obtenidos en la sesión del 26 y 27 de noviembre de 2012 sobre la evaluación de las solicitudes de Acreditación del profesorado previas a su contratación por las universidades canarias y Acreditación de la Experiencia Investigadora.