Goal 1. Teaching

1. Encouraging the academic success and personal development of students
2. Encouraging the academic and humanistic education of students
3. Positioning students in a situation in which they have a competitive advantage in terms of integration in the workplace.

1.1

• Increasing self-study tasks for students (demanding homework)
• Ensuring the inclusion of content with a focus on sustainability, cooperation, social responsibility, entrepreneurship, innovation and healthcare.
• Encouraging academic excellence among students through special mentions for the best student from each degree and year.
• Promoting advice as a factor that makes a difference to a comprehensive student education.

1.2

• Defining a plan for humanistic education at UIC Barcelona to promote a liberal education in both bachelor's and master’s degree degrees.
• Establishing specific ethical and humanistic skills for each bachelor's and master’s degree degree, and establishing and implementing a plan to develop and evaluate them.
• Establishing extracurricular education actions that complement the humanistic education tailored to each student's degree.

1.3

• Determining the skills required by employers and aligning these skills with the curriculum for each degree
• Encouraging participation in extracurricular internships.
• Drawing up a ten-point list of the skills and qualities that characterise students at UIC Barcelona (CapaciUIC Programme)

1. Ensuring professional development through teacher training
2. Encouraging guidance to improve teaching.

1.2.1

• Designing and implementing a class observation plan for classroom lectures
• Implementing a comprehensive methodology and humanistic education that is compulsory for all faculty staff
• Ensuring teaching staff have language qualifications

1.2.2

• Encouraging academic staff to reflect on and analyse their teaching ability, and to integrate the results of student surveys
• Promoting the use of online teaching methods (Moodle) to improve teaching
• Promoting initiatives and proposals for innovative teaching
• Promoting cooperation between academic staff in different areas

1. Establishing guidelines for the UIC curriculum
2. Encouraging lifelong learning
3. Ensuring the legal requirements are met for degrees and centres 

1.3.1

• Establishing a procedure to guarantee a review of academic programmes
• Defining a policy for approving new academic programmes

1.3.2

• Designing training activities linked to UIC bachelor's degrees (lifelong learning)
• Attracting students as a potential audience for continuous learning

1.3.3

• Overcoming the accreditation process for degree programmes.
• Establishing measures to ensure that courses meet the percentage of doctors and qualified staff required by law
• Implementing the necessary mechanisms to ensure that bachelor students have the required language level, as defined by legislation, before graduating