Verification of curricula

Article 35 of  Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, of the University System  regulates official university degrees that are valid throughout the whole country, and establishes that for universities to be able to teach official university courses that lead to these degrees, they must obtain:

• From the autonomous community: authorisation for their introduction.
• From the University Council: verification of the consistency of the curricula with the guidelines and conditions established by the government for official degrees.

After authorisation for the implementation and verification of the curriculum, the government establishes the official nature of the degree and gives instructions for its inclusion in the University Register of Centres and Degrees (RUCT), the effect of which is to confer accreditation on the degree.

The study plan verification procedure is specified in the  Real Decreto 822/2021 (466 kbytes)  of September 28, which establishes the organization of university education and the quality assurance procedure.

For the purpose of dealing with applications for verification of curricula submitted by universities, the University Council requires a mandatory and binding report from the autonomous region’s external assessment body which, for this effect, must be a member of the  European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education, (EQAR)  after said assessment body has successfully undergone an external review in accordance with the  European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance of Higher Education, (ESG) , in the European Higher Education Area, as ACSUCYL has done.

The assessment protocols required for verification, in accordance with the above-mentioned standards and guidelines (ESG), are established jointly by the Red Española de Agencias de Calidad Universitaria (REACU) (534 kbytes) :

• Nota informativa: protocolos de evaluación REACU (3.823 kbytes)
• Protocolo de evaluación para la verificación de títulos universitarios oficiales (grado y máster) (496 kbytes)
• Protocolo de evaluación para la verificación y modificación de los programas de las enseñanzas oficiales de Doctorado (596 kbytes)
• Directrices y Orientaciones para la elaboración y evaluación de títulos de Grado y Máster en diferentes modalidades de enseñanza (257 kbytes)
• Protocolo para la adaptación de la duración de los títulos de Grado y Máster (202 kbytes)
• Protocolo de evaluación para la inclusión de la mención dual en las enseñanzas universitarias de grado y máster (745 kbytes)
• Protocolo de evaluación para la inclusión de estrategias metodológicas de innovación docente específicas (642 kbytes)
• Guía: "Cómo diseñar y presentar los resultados de aprendizaje en las memorias de las titulaciones” (2.024 kbytes)
• Protocolo REACU para la evaluación de PARS-IA (236 kbytes)
• Recomendaciones sobre el Reconocimiento de Créditos entre los Grados de Maestro en Educación Infantil y Maestro en Educación Primaria (469 kbytes)

• Guía de evaluación para la Verificación y Modificación sustancial de los planes de estudio. (898 kbytes)
• Elaboración del informe de evaluación. Órganos y fases de la evaluación en la Verificación y Modificación sustancial de los planes de estudio. (1.055 kbytes)
• Orientaciones para la evaluación de los programas de doctorado. (1.127 kbytes)

Evaluation of proposals for Successive Academic Programs in the field of Engineering and Architecture (PARS-IA)

• Guía para la solicitud y evaluación de PARS-IA (1.087 kbytes)
• Modelo de solicitud PARS-IA (109 kbytes)
• Modelo de memoria de PARS-IA (110 kbytes)

ACSUCYL conducts assessment of the report proposals for curricula through the Degree Assessment Commission , which is responsible amongst other tasks for: 

• Planning and coordinating the assessment process.
• Designing, approving and publishing the assessment criteria and methods.
• Adopting joint final assessment decisions.

For the development of its functions, the Commission seeks the advice of experts integrated in Comités de evaluación (92 kbytes) , organized in fields or branches of knowledge.

The work undertaken by the members of the committee and the experts in the committees is subject to the Agency's Código Ético (556 kbytes) .

The assessment reports for verification of universities’ official degrees in Castilla y León listed in the University Register of Centres and Degrees (RUCT) are published in Acsucyl´s search engine for official degrees