Occupy a square in a specialty that has not been exercised in 30 years is legal,
but indicates the little relevant that are knowledge and academic merit. These
usages are those that take us to the caboose
All the countries which are somewhat in the world maintain their universities
with taxes so that more prepared impart their knowledge and investigate, and its
graduates can enter the labor market. Rubalcaba he obtained a position as full
professor, through fitness, in 1984. The epoch in which, by the way, he was more
concerned with the policy by the bonds of carbon. Therefore leads 30 years
without seeing a poyata, so difficult to accept this political meeting today the
preparation required of a professor of chemistry at a European university of the
twenty-first century. Some may say that it is legal for that position, for that
he pulled out his plaza in property. But is this response -legally no recourse -
which brings us to the rub of the matter: we have a university in which
knowledge and academic merit are little relevant compared to the seniority and
other privileges and uses. As, on the other hand, it is happening in other areas
of the public. Suffice it to recall the recent case of the exconsejera Health of
Extremadura, reported this journal (24/02/ 14). Without going into judge whether
gimmick or not its opposition before leaving the counseling, what it is
unconscionable is that a surgeon that has been in bureaucratic posts for almost
seven years can occupy, act followed, a plaza of general surgery in a hospital.
Although the law allows it, nor the first appears to be the most suitable to
teach chemistry in a faculty or the second to operate, by very good if it was
your theory test. You wouldn t do you a plane piloted by someone who has spent
years without flying but that has been learned the manual memory? As Ortega
taught us in the mission of the university, if we were to abuse, these would be
"low importance. Because one of two: or are abused in the most natural sense of
the word, i.e. isolated cases ... , or are so frequent that ... has not place
call them abuse ... but inevitable result of uses that are bad". And as bad are
the uses of the Spanish university that have become commonplace figure of the
official candidate for places in liza, a habit that deters many competitions; or
prevent the establishment of the Hausberufungsverbot ( "ban to promote those who
have studied at home" ), so widespread in the anglo-saxon countries. Instrument
that not only the jugular inbreeding, but that stimulates the mobility between
those who seek to make academic career (the vast majority of our teachers, 90%
or more, they are in the institution where they read his doctoral thesis), les
illustrates about how research is done in other centers - not everything is in
the books - and they are entered in the international circuit of its specialty.
With all the sin capital of the Spanish university is its legendary inability to
find your mission and articulated in the social and economic context of the
country and the world (today globalized). The criterion for selecting teachers
collides with the accepted in the countries most outstanding the fact that in
our university, the criteria for the selection of teachers would collide
violently with the accepted in the countries most outstanding the centuries has
been marginalized from the international circuit of the talent of the science.
What seriously hinders their recognition and production of original research and
relevant. In addition to imposing a overexertion to those groups which, despite
this anaerobiosis, are able to shine. Those who, to paraphrase Cajal, produce
their own light and are not limited to reflect the other. Those who know the
difference between researching and poke around and, therefore, are not among the
advertisers of the topic that Spain - with less than 1% of its GDP devoted to
the science - occupies the tenth position in the world in volume of
publications, but keep quiet about their limited impact factor or the little
office number of triadic patents (the registered jointly in Europe, USA and
Japan) that we produce, which in 2010 accounted for 0.49 % of the world total,
while Korea scored 4.4 %. This activity, which generates wealth and stimulates
the necessary symbiosis company-university, is another of our major
deficiencies. The recent and macabre spectacle of the Department of Anatomy II
from the Universidad Complutense, in addition to elaborate on what I have said,
is an unacceptable breach of the code of ethics that should be approached the
university and a lousy example of impunity. If this had happened in the UK,
Switzerland and Japan, it is easy to imagine where they would be the rector, the
Dean and the anatomists (regardless of what you could then dictate the judges),
and which would have been the reaction of the faculty and students. Here they
have simply a Mutis. The first that has to be respected to itself and give
evidence that they believe in the academic and moral values, which are inspiring
from the middle ages, is the university community itself. It is commendable that
distinguished professors and members of several academies call attention to the
