Fewer restrictions on hiring in higher education – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The universities and polytechnics will have less difficulty in hiring staff from this year. State Budget (OE) for 2016, the Government authorized the hiring of teachers and researchers, since the expense of the institutions is not greater than the highest amount spent on staff in the last three years. The document also provides for an increase of 3.6% of the funding of Higher Education and Science.

The OE underlines the commitment of the Government in the rejuvenation of teachers in higher education framework, ensuring that “appropriate measures will be taken to reverse the trend of reducing the number of teachers and start the faculty rejuvenation in public higher education.” The protection allows the institutions to make new hires “regardless of the type of legal relationship that will set up” by placing a single limit, which relates to the total spending on personnel expenses.

For this , universities and polytechnics should “preferably” refer to the use of own revenues, reads the document on Friday reached Parliament. The budget also contains the authorization of fixed-term contracts of teachers and researchers for the implementation of scientific and educational programs, as long as the charges are undertaken with funds transferred by the Foundation for Science and Technology or funds allocated to such projects or services.

in budgetary terms, the OE intended 2.2546 billion euros for the program Science, Technology and Higher Education, which represents an increase of more than 77 million euros compared to the provisional execution of the previous year . Already the expenditure for higher education and social action is reduced by 1.3%, down from 1069.2 to 1055 million euros, although the government assume that the 138 million funding of the Social Action Fund will allow “the strengthening the instruments of social support to attend higher education. “

This will be the last year that the budget of higher education will be defined by the State budget, since negotiations are underway with universities and polytechnics to creation of a new multiannual financial framework which will start in 2017 and will continue until the end of the legislature, something to which the document refers. The Government’s intention is that, in addition to the base funding of the new framework “to strengthen the research activity, integrate projects of modernization, strengthening and rehabilitation equipment infrastructure” and be a “stimulus to the creation of networks and consortia the pooling of resources and the mobility of teachers. “

the document is also announced the creation of a monitoring group and budget control as” guarantees of expenditure restraint in the budgetary framework defined “in education superior, who shall prepare a quarterly report for supervision by members of the Government responsible for the areas of Finance and higher Education, in a decision involving the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities and the Coordinating Council for higher Polytechnic Institutes.

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