The University of Oviedo grows old and lacks professors. To address this problem the rectory team wants to assert the role of veterans and it has incorporated the role of collaborators to the regulation of emeritus professors, which will allow teachers who have already retired to remain linked to the University, without a fixed assignment of tasks but exceptionally collaborating with research groups.
"They have a very extended and powerful trajectory that we want to take advantage of," explained Santiago García Granda on the opportunity to take advantage of the trajectory of these professors to advise young scientists. "I think it is the ideal situation in everything that refers to University Extension, so that these professors can continue collaborating", the Rector said.
?García Granda was clear yesterday when explaining that at the current rate of professors who stop working, with an average of 40 to 50 retirements per year, the workforce will become an encumbrance for future generations. "What we need is to be given more ease in the replacement rate and that the generational change does not depend on the retirements," the head of the academic institution stressed, thus suggesting greater flexibility to rejuvenate the workforce.
??The average age of the university's permanent staff is 52 years. Due to the replacement rate freeze in public employment during several courses, professors who were accredited could not promote. This happened from 2012 to 2014. From that moment, new replacement rates were marked, which are determined by the number of civil servants that can be incorporated from the previous year's retirements, leaves of absence, voluntary resignations... In 2015 that rate was 50% and in 2016 and 2017 it was 100%. The blockade of previous years generated a "plug" of 200 accredited professors who will not be able to fully promote until 2019. García Granda pointed out that the Rectors Conference is working to accelerate the generational change.
