ANECA adopts extraordinary measures to accelerate the pace of resolution of applications for accreditation of civil servant teachers

The accreditation commissions for civil servant teaching staff (PTU and CU) continue to have very positive overall results in their evaluation activity: in September, 1,707 applications have been resolved, compared to 1,532 in July.

However, there are still some very worrying numbers in some commissions, both in terms of the accumulated number of pending applications and the waiting time, despite all the measures that have been adopted up to now by the Agency's management to speed up the rate of file resolution. Thus, the average number of cases resolved under RD 1312/2007 is 60.4%, but while some commissions have already resolved 92.4% of the accumulated cases up to March 31, others have not reached 40%.

Download September evaluation data and resolution deadline.

We must also assess the number of applications submitted as of April 1 (in accordance with RD 678/2023) in each commission, which does not correspond to the accumulated historical data from which we start to define the 30 commissions proposed at the end of 2023 for approval by the Ministry of Universities, based on Article 6 of the aforementioned Royal Decree. This is well reflected in the graph that we update weekly and to which we have already added the data of the applications submitted according to the new procedure:

Taking into account these data, and deepening in the transparency exercise that the university community is asking us, increasingly uneasy due to the time it is taking to implement the new accreditation system, ANECA's management has decided to adopt these measures in the month of October:

• We will start the administrative review of the applications submitted in the commission 0 and in those commissions that are finishing the resolution of the applications submitted until March 31, for each faculty (of PTU and CU). The resolution of these applications submitted after April 1 (RD 678/2023) will be made as soon as the administrative review is completed. Joint applications for PTU and CU accreditation will begin to be reviewed when the corresponding commission has finalized both the PTU accreditation applications and the CU accreditation applications.
• We will again require all commissions with unsustainable data, after the months that have elapsed since their creation, to split into two subcommissions in preparation for collegial sessions. The experience of the committees that have been applying this measure for months is very satisfactory, and has led to an improvement in the waiting time and the number of cases resolved.
• We will proceed to restructure the commissions, splitting some of them and merging others, within the limit of 30 commissions allowed by RD 678/2023. Annually, the Director of ANECA can propose to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities the approval of commissions, being competent to decide their creation and suppression, with the indication of the specialties of knowledge assigned to each commission. Specifically, ANECA's management considers essential to increase by one more commission Social Sciences, Education and Economics and Business Administration.