The Rector asks the representative of the government to stop by the University of Jaen and appeal to the Council for the fulfillment of the agreements reached – Linares28 – El diario digital de Linares

Nicolás Ruiz Reyes, rector of the University of Jaen, appealed to the Junta de Andalucía again, saying that he would not give more time and “fulfill the commitments accepted and signed so that the current funding model does not remain on wet paper”. “”. In this way, the most responsible employee of the academic institution of Jaén responds to what the representative of the Andalusian Government in Jaén, Jesús Estrella, said: “que se puta al la lado de la Universidad de Jaén, listen and analyze”. the arguments of all los rectors and the rector of Andalusia, to contribute to “mantener un servicio public de educación superior de calidad”. “We have fair and reasonable complaints, we have a contract signed with the Consejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación, which gathers these demands and is reached by consensus of all.” “Simple, Junta cumpla, porque nos jugamos la survivencia de la propia Universidad,” remarked Nicolas Ruiz.
In this way, the rector of the UJA made some observations on the arguments raised last Wednesday by the representative of the Andalusian Government in Jaen, who confirmed, among other things, that the Jaen academic institution will have its highest budget in 2025. history, qualified as “una affirmación claramente demagógica”. In this sense, ha esgrimido Nicolás Ruiz, inflation has grown exponentially in Spain and Andalusia in the last three years, during which there has been a “significant progressive increase” in private spending, including “Necesario para paliar los UJA, inflation and inflation affect today's administrations, More than 15 years,” explained Nicolas Ruiz.
The rector of the UJA made some observations on the arguments raised last Wednesday by the representative of the Andalusian Government in Jaén, who confirmed, among other things, that the Jaén academic institution will have the highest budget in its history in 2025. classified as “una affirmación claramente demagógica”. In this sense, ha esgrimido Nicolás Ruiz, in the last three years inflation in Spain and Andalusia “increased exponentially, during which there was an important progressive increase in private spending, necessary para paliar los efectos de Basic inflation and today's administrations, including the UJA, 15- In the 15th year of the year, it is announced by Nicolas Ruiz.
“That is, the difference between the increase in the IPC plus labor costs and the funding that the universities receive to face this increase in costs is clearly negative, in our case 10 million euros and 150 million euros for the whole system, Andalusian, for the ten public universities of Andalusia,” said the rector adding that “the balance is unfavorable and we have less maneuverability to carry out the missions we are assigned.”
Uso de remanentes
Nicolás Ruiz also addressed the remains, one of the questions raised by the representative of the Gobierno de la Junta in Jaén, affirming that “they are the fruit of the great economic and financial management carried out by the three rectors before me. by sus equipos”; In short, the accumulated surplus allowed UJA to have the savings to successfully address the growth of an institution that has become “the main engine of the development and transformation of the province”. “Thanks to the existing, among other things, we can experience the implantation of the Medical Degree, because the new Health Sciences building is fully funded by our savings. Therefore, there is a very good opportunity. I am sure that the representative of the Andalusian government, Jesús Estrella, would not have wanted this situation in any way, “he said.
In this sense, the rector of the UJA said that the Ministry, which has the competences of the public universities of Andalusia, does not have a multi-year investment plan for new infrastructures financed with its own funds, “which will allow us to face the costs obtained from the nuevas construcciones”. , teniéndolo que hacer con los remanentes genericos “more exiguos every time”. “I would like to think that the representative of the government of Jaen will support the request of this rector before the Ministry of Finance to use these funds to equip the Health Sciences building, an intervention and expansion costing about 6 million euros. De nuestro pabellón polideportivo, actualmente paralizada porque no disponemos de la protinent authorization de Hacienda para hacer uso de esos fondos, es decir, de nuestros propios ahorros”, assured Ruiz Reyes.
In this sense, the rector of the UJA explained that there are two questions disputed by the representative of the government and “conveniently clarified”, which are “smoke screens to divert attention from the main point and nothing else. violation” of the funding model and the agreements of the common negotiating table”. “Aquí sí que no hay margen de duda, porque la questión está muy clara There are agreements that have not been fulfilled by the Junta,” said the high representative of the academic institution, adding that “the evidence can be denied, but the information is there and it is unquestionable. Por mucho que se repita una falsedad no se convertivo en verdad”.
Nicolás Ruiz recalled that, regarding the implementation of 2025, the University's own advisor for Research and Innovation, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, at the meeting of the Andalusian Universities Council held in Córdoba on May 22, 2024, the Chancellors and the Andalusian Rector of the funding model (clausula de safeguarda y componente de nivelación) must be subscribed in the amount of 24.38 million euros for its full implementation.
Likewise, at a June 25 meeting in Seville, the councilor committed to meet the additional funding needs of Chapter I public universities, related to what was agreed upon in a meeting with Andalusian public universities and labor unions. del CAU, de 22 de Mayo de 2024, celebrated in Córdoba, tanto para los complementos autonomicos del PDI, como para la carrera horizontal del PTGAS, quantified en casi 26 million de Euros. “Today, no euro has been received to ensure the fulfillment of the 2024 funding model and the agreements of the common negotiating table in Andalusian public universities,” he said.

Budget situation for 2025

In the same way, the rector of the UJA also analyzed the budget situation for the next fiscal year 2025 and stated that as the president of the Asociación de Universidad Públicas de Andalucía said in the Parliament of Andalusia, which he recalled last Tuesday, November 19. He said that he faced a serious financial shortfall of 87 million, “For Andalusia, there was only an increase of 4.4 percent, only in the university. It is 2.4 percent,” he said.
Finally, Nicolas Ruiz insisted on asking the Government representative in Jaen to seek valid formulas to meet the just and justified demands of the University of Jaen. “I am sure that he will stand by the community of Jaén, who want their university to continue to grow and to contribute its knowledge and talent to the transformation and development of the province of Jaén.” “The main senta de escucha, dialogo y nagociación para el fulfilmento de los accuerdos alcanzados, este rector will be siempre abierto y disponible,” he concluded.