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Propuesta de regulación de la conciliación estudiantil-familiar en la Educación Superior

The student-life balance is the right that guarantees the equilibrium between ensuring the fulfillment of academic obligations and family responsibilities. In the current university curricula, the requirement to fulfill a certain number of classroom credits and other measures implemented by the European Space of Superior Education, pose a problem for students who need to reconcile parenthood with their training. In this research, we use a qualitative methodology based on the analysis of documentary content. We review the different international studies that investigate the resources, policies and lines of action that enable this balance in the context of Higher Education. And we discuss the information contained in the websites of various national and international universities. The results show that Spanish universities do not offer policies or concrete actions, highlighting the absence of a legal framework to support and ensure the student-life balance at university. To conclude, we propose some regulatory measures, as genuine equal options, to avoid discriminatory situations.

Diseño curricular en la educación universitaria: estudio de caso

Today university teachers face a lot of challenges derived from designing and implementing the new curricula, immersed in a structural change of teaching and methodologies focused on the students’ learning. This paper provides the results of a research on a professional development experience centred on the elaboration of teaching guides for different subjects from the perspective of the research-based design. That experience is part of a wider University of Alicante teaching project with more than fifty per cent of its teachers taking part in it. The research methodology is mainly qualitative and the results explicit that, front the point of view of the participant teachers, the experience is a relevant referent for both curricular change and teaching culture; change that is aligned with the EHEA convergence process.