Fifteen hundred lecturers get the Catalan accreditation in less than a year
The Vice-rector’s Office for Institutional Relations, Communication and Language Policy and the Language Services of the University of Barcelona launched a campaign a year ago to regularize the linguistic accreditation of the University’s teaching staff. To this end, in March 2022, around 2,300 members of the teaching and research staff (TRS) of the UB (1,911 adjunct lecturers, 225 permanent teachers and 130 tenure-track lecturers) were told that, since the entry into force of the Decree 128/2010, 14 December, on the language accreditation for the teaching staff of the universities of the Catalan university system, they had to still get the language proficiency accreditation (C1).
The Vice-rector’s Office for Institutional Relations, Communication and Language Policy and the Language Services of the University of Barcelona launched a campaign a year ago to regularize the linguistic accreditation of the University’s teaching staff. To this end, in March 2022, around 2,300 members of the teaching and research staff (TRS) of the UB (1,911 adjunct lecturers, 225 permanent teachers and 130 tenure-track lecturers) were told that, since the entry into force of the Decree 128/2010, 14 December, on the language accreditation for the teaching staff of the universities of the Catalan university system, they had to still get the language proficiency accreditation (C1).
The Language Services launched a wide operation of informative sessions, courses and accreditation tests so as to regularize this requirement for the teaching staff that had not met it yet.
In ten months —since the beginning of the campaign on 9 March, until 31 December 2022—, 1,501 lecturers obtained the accreditation and 296 were regularized. A total of 1,797 TRS members were accredited or regularized. This high figure of accredited staff in less than a year has no precedents both at the UB and in the Catalan university system. Moreover, it is positively valued that, twelve years after the approval of the Decree 128/2010, the UB has managed to regularize 80% of the teaching staff who did not have the accreditation.
However, 469 lecturers (56 permanent, 35 tenure-track, and 378 adjunct lecturers) have yet to be accredited. For this reason, the Language Services will continue to provide courses and official tests to accredit the level of proficiency in Catalan required by the regulations, and they will offer follow-up and personalized support to lecturers who ask for it.