Preamble
Article 48.2 of the Ramon Llull University Statutes states that
"access to the categories of University professor or lecturer
and University School professor or lecturer may be achieved
through promotion, open competition or internal competition,
according to the justified proposal made by the Centre concerned
to the Academic Board".
Article 51 of the same Statutes adds that "selection and
promotion of teaching staff, timetables, incompatibilities,
licences or any other appropriate matters, shall be regulated
by the future Rules of procedure concerning the teaching staff
and by the particular rules of each Centre".
Finally, the first transitional provision of the Statutes states
that "the aforementioned Rules of procedure must be drafted
by the 1 January 1996".
As a result, the Trust of the Private Foundation of Catalonia
for the Ramon Llull University, on a report by the Academic
Board, approves the following Rules of Procedure for the Teaching
staff.
Chapter one. General
principles
Article 1. Contracting by the
Centres The contracting of teaching staff by the Federated
Institutions of the University shall be decided on the initiative
of each Institution, which shall freely establish contracts
and establish the corresponding contractual regime according
to the criteria of the Institution itself. Teaching staff shall
be paid from the budget of the Federated Institution that has
contracted it.
Contracting of the teaching staff of the Integrated (non-founding)
Centres shall be left up to the Foundation and shall be governed
by its own rules. Such teaching staff shall be paid from the
Foundation's budget.
The regime of incompatibilities, timetables, licences or any
other appropriate matters concerning teaching staff shall be
regulated by the rules of each Centre pursuant to the criteria
established in these Internal Rules and those governed by the
Statutes of the Ramon Llull University.
By virtue of the process established in these Internal Rules,
the appointment of a professor or associate professor of the
Ramon Llull University shall not automatically cause any change
to the conditions governing their contractual relationship with
the Centre on which they depend, without prejudice to any conditions
that the corresponding Centres may establish for such cases.
Article 2. Academic structure
Pursuant to article 50 of the University Statutes, and on a
proposal from the centres comprising it, the Board of Governors
of the University shall be granted the power to define the necessary
teaching structure of the staff, in other words, the numbers
of lecturers of the different categories in relation to the
number of students and the characteristics of each Faculty and
School, whilst maintaining the necessary balance between the
different categories of teaching staff, in line with the demands
for teaching and research.
Article 3. Teaching
categories The categories established by the University are "University
professor or lecturer, University School professor or lecturer
and University Institute professor or lecturer of the Ramon
Llull University."
Candidates may accede to the categories of professor or lecturer
through a system of promotion, open competition or internal
competition, via the process regulated in these Internal Rules
pursuant to the Statutes of the Ramon Llull University.
Professors or Lecturers of Faculties, Higher Schools and Institutes,
and University School Professors must hold a Doctorate. University
School lecturers must hold a Bachelors Degree (BA or BSc), or
be an Architect or Engineer, Diploma-holder, Draftsman or Technical
Engineer.
The categories of associate professors, emeritus professors,
visiting lecturers, researchers and assistant lecturers referred
to in Article 46 of the Statutes shall be determined or recognised
as teaching staff exclusively according to the rules of each
Centre, without prejudice to the obligation of the Centres to
notify the Rectory of the University thereof. Within fifteen
working days of the notification, the Rector of the University
shall proceed to award the corresponding "venia docendi"
pursuant to Article 19.3.m) of the University Statutes.
Chapter two. Approval
process
Article 4. Centre's own initiative The process to be followed to achieve the category of
professor or lecturer of the Ramon Llull University shall
be started on an initiative by the Dean or Head of each Centre,
and in line with the Rules of procedure, with the approval
of the corresponding body directly proposing the system to
be followed to the Corresponding centre - promotion, open
competition or internal competition.
In all three cases (promotion, open competition or internal
competition) it is left up to each Centre to regulate and
carry out the prior phases of selection of the most appropriate
system; a proposal to the University, announcement, advertisement,
call, presentation of applications for the candidates, admission
or exclusion, presentation of the appropriate documents (CV,
teaching project and research project), presentation of allegations,
etc.
Once these three phases are complete, the Centre shall submit
the proposal of the process with all the appropriate documents
and the profile of conditions and tasks to be performed by
the candidate to the Rector of the University, who shall order
the start of the corresponding process at the University at
the latest thirty working days from receipt of the proposal.
The Rector may only reject a proposal for approval if it fails
to comply with any of the articles of the Statutes, of these
internal rules, or if it is clearly incompatible with the
academic structure of the University.
Pursuant to Article 48.3 of the Statutes of the Ramon Llull
University, the Academic Board may, if it considers necessary,
appoint a Teaching staff commission which must be heard by
the Rector for the appointment of the tribunal and even for
the final admission of the candidate.
Article 5. Composition and appointment of the Tribunal The Tribunal shall be proposed by the Centre, on whose
initiative the approval process will be set in motion and
the member of staff appointed by the Rector of the University,
at the latest thirty working days from the start of the process.
The Rector may only reject a proposal for appointment by the
members of the Tribunal when such a proposal runs counter
to the Statutes or the Rules.
The Tribunal shall comprise five members for the process of
approval of a University, Faculty, Higher Technical School
or Institute professor or lecturer, or three members in the
case of a University School professor or lecturer. Replacement
members of the Tribunal, numbering two and one respectively,
shall be proposed and appointed in the same way.
The members of the Tribunal must be of an equivalent or higher
academic category than the categories for which approval is
sought. Two members of the Tribunals at most may belong to
a University other than the URL or to a qualified Research
Centre.
The President and Secretary of the Tribunal shall be designated
by the Rector from among the members proposed by the Centre.
Members appointed to the Tribunal may not refuse without due
justified cause. It corresponds to the Rector of the University
to consider the cause put forward and to decide upon the replacement
member.
The Tribunal shall be set up within thirty working days from
its appointment at the latest.
The Tribunal shall be legally constituted with the presence
of all of the members that make it up, the presence of whom
shall be obligatory throughout the approval process. Should
any of the members of the Tribunal be absent from the act
of constitution or from any of the remaining phases of the
process, they shall be dismissed as members of the Tribunal
and the Rector shall automatically appoint a successor.
Article 6. Assessment and report of the Tribunal Once the Tribunal has completed its work, it shall discuss
the suitability of the candidates to the corresponding category
in secret and shall issue a resolution to be presented to
the Rector, in a maximum of twenty-four hours from the end
of the last exercise.
The Tribunal shall take the decision by absolute majority.
The Tribunal's decision may not be appealed against.
In the case of the system of access by promotion, when the
Tribunal decides not to authorise the candidate, the Centre
may not propose a new process of promotion for the same lecturer
until one year after the Tribunal has given its opinion.
Article 7. Appointment by the Rector Within 15 working days, if appropriate, the Rector shall
issue the appointment of the staff member and award the "venia
docendi", pursuant to Article 19.3.g) of the University
Statutes.
Article 8. Advertising the process The Rector's decision to initiate the process within the
University, the appointment and setting up of the Tribunal,
the day, place and time at which tests are to be held, the
decision of the Tribunal and other acts or resolutions governed
by these Internal Rules, shall be published both on the Rectory
notice board and that of the corresponding Centre that began
the approval process, without prejudice to its being communicated
personally in writing by registered post to the candidate
or candidates concerned.
Chapter three. Approval
tests
Article 9 The exercise to be assessed by the Tribunal shall consist
of two tests to examine the four categories envisaged in Article
3 of these internal rules. The tests shall be held in a place
to be determined by the Centre that began the process and
will be public.
For competitions, the order of presentation of the candidates
shall be decided by the drawing of lots.
The first test shall entail the candidate presenting his or
her curriculum vitae and teaching project. When considering
access to the category of University lecturer (either of a
Faculty or a Higher Technical School) on assessing the candidate's
curriculum vitae, the Tribunal shall take into account both
teaching and research merits. For access to the category of
University School lecturer, the main criterion shall be teaching
merit only.
The second test shall involve speaking about one subject of
the programme of the teaching project presented by the candidate.
For the competition for resident lecturer, the subject shall
be chosen by the Tribunal from among the five proposed by
the candidates from among the teaching project. For the competition
for the professorship, the subject shall be chosen by the
candidate from among the five chosen by the Tribunal, and
from the candidate's teaching project.
In exceptional circumstances, when the access system to be
followed involves promotion, the Centre that has begun the
process may choose to replace this second test with a direct
assessment by the Tribunal of the teaching work performed
by the candidate over the previous years. This will be based
upon a report presented by the Dean or Director of the Corresponding
centre, and must include the results of surveys or equivalent
means used by the students of each Centre to evaluate the
teaching skill of their teaching staff.
This request to replace one test with another shall be made
by the Centre concerned along with the Tribunal's proposal
regulated under Article 5 of these internal rules.
Each test shall last a minimum of one hour and a maximum of
three. There must be a pause of at least twenty-four hours
between the first and second tests and the total test period
may not exceed fifteen working days.
The tribunal shall publish the day, place and time of the
holding of the test through an announcement published both
on the Rectory notice board and that of the corresponding
Centre that began the approval process.
Chapter four. Loss
of professional status
Article 10 Loss of professional status (category) shall result from
the opening of disciplinary proceedings by the Centre or the
Rector. Disciplinary proceedings shall be initiated as a result
of failure by the lecturer to comply with the duties laid
down in the statutes for the academic staff. The lecturer
concerned by the dossier may appeal to defend his or her interests.
Disciplinary proceedings shall be resolved by the Board of
Governors, whose decision may not be appealed against to the
Rector, pursuant to Article 19.3.m) of the University Statutes.
If appropriate, the Rector shall declare the loss of professional
status and shall personally notify the lecturer concerned
by the proceedings.
The execution of the disciplinary procedure shall be regulated
by specific rules to be drawn up within one year following
approval of these internal rules.
Professional status shall also be lost on expiry of the existing
contractual relationship between the Lecturer and the Centre
on which she/he depends.
Chapter five. Special
circumstances
Article 11. Maintaining professional status
After the contractual relationship between a Lecturer and
the Centre on which she or he depends comes to an end, in
exceptional circumstances judged on a case by case basis,
the University Board of Governors may decide to maintain the
teaching category attained by this lecturer at the Ramon Llull
University on a proposal from the Centre itself, having listened
to the Academic Board.
Article 12. Recovery of professional status
The professional status of professor or lecturer of the Ramon
Llull University that has been lost due to expiry of the contractual
relationship with the Centre on which it depends may be recovered
when the lecturer is again contracted by the same Centre.
Article 13. Extraordinary approval
On a proposal by the Corresponding centre, and with the favourable
report of the Academic Board, the Rector shall recognise a
full professor or professor of another University as a full
professor or professor of the Ramon Llull University.
First Additional Provision
According to the terms of these internal rules, working days
shall be taken to mean the working days listed in the Ramon
Llull University's calendar.
Second Additional
Provision
Any questions of interpretation and doubts concerning the
application of these internal rules shall be resolved by the
Rector pursuant to Article 18 h) of the Statutes of the Ramon
Llull University.
NB: These Rules of procedure for access
to the Categories of Professors and Lecturers of the Ramon
Llull University entered into force on 31 October 1996 with
the approval of the minutes of the Academic Board of 5 July
1996.
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