The Government will change the university law to ‘save’ the Oberta de Catalunya and not lose that category
The Government is going to modify the Organic Law of Universities (LOU) to save to the Open University of Catalunya, a private one owned by the Generalitat, (and incidentally to the UNED) of its own Royal Decree on the requirements that universities must meet to be considered as such. These two universities, the largest in Spain among those that only teach online, do not comply with the condition imposed by the text that there must be at least one professor for every one hundred students, and the UOC in particular will find it practically impossible to achieve it. which would lead to losing the category of University.
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