ANECA adapts the evaluation programs of teachings and institutions to the Law on the comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom

ANECA has adapted its evaluation programs to comply with the provisions of Organic Law 10/2022, of September 6, on the comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom, establishing measures related to the evaluation, verification and accreditation of university centers and degrees. This is in response to the mandate of the Law, which includes among its main objectives strengthening citizen awareness and prevention measures, promoting effective awareness and training policies in the educational, labor, digital, advertising and media fields, among others.

For this reason, ANECA has adapted the evaluation guides of its different programs so that universities have a training itinerary on the prevention of violence against women and the promotion of equality between women and men, in the study plans leading to the obtaining of official degrees in which it is coherent, in accordance with the competencies inherent to it.

Furthermore, universities will promote the inclusion of content aimed at training for prevention, awareness, detection and training in matters of sexual violence in the curricula of official university degrees leading to the exercise of teaching professions. Similarly, in the ongoing training of university professors and administrative and service personnel, content aimed at training for prevention, awareness and detection in matters of sexual violence will be incorporated.

All of this has been integrated into the evaluation guides of ANECA programs, which point out the need for universities to integrate the gender perspective and the fight against sexual violence as a guiding principle and a cross-cutting issue that affects all official university degrees regardless of their scope. Therefore, universities must provide, in the evaluations of the degrees, evidence of strategies in these matters, for example: training of personnel for the prevention, awareness and detection of sexual violence, the incorporation of the gender perspective in teaching, the use of non-sexist language in the design of study plans, etc.

These guidelines have also been reflected in the templates for the self-assessment reports required for the renewal of the accreditation of official university degrees. In addition, ANECA has updated its assessment guides to include, among the quality principles, the integration of content on sexual education and gender equality and affective-sexual education for students, appropriate according to age, at all educational levels and in collaboration with the health sector.

With these actions, ANECA advances in its commitment to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in access, selection, hiring, promotion, training, conciliation, occupational health, as well as preventing situations of sexual and/or gender-based harassment, and gender violence.