Universities in Spain

Next month, 20 universities from nine countries will compete in Madrid to construct ‘the most sustainable house possible’ using solar power. Representatives from universities in China, Brazil, US, Finland, Spain and the UK will each build a solar house in the enormous showrooms next to Madrid’s Royal Palace and the River Manzanares.

‘Solar Decathlon’, which is expected to attract more than 100,000 people, has only previously been held in Washington, DC. At every previous event, a significant number of new patents were generated. It has therefore attracted great interest from businesses around the world which have sought to exploit cutting-edge university research into solar power.

The event is being organised by the Polytechnic University of Madrid in collaboration with the Town Hall of Madrid. The Ministry of Housing is contributing EUR5 million (US$6 million) to the costs and the central government a further EUR2.3 million.

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The University of Navarra has been ranked the best non-state University in Spain according to rankings released by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

The rankings published by El Mundo look into the best colleges and schools amongst the fifty most in demand careers. Ahead of the University of Navarra are public universities in Madrid and Barcelona.

In the ranking, nine degrees of the University of Navarra are among the five best in Spain, in particular the careers of Journalism and Human Nutrition and Dietetics, earning the top spot.

In second place come Audiovisual Communication and Nursing and in third position, Medicine, Architecture, Advertising and Public Relations, Medicine and Mechanical Engineering.

During the last year, the UA Corporate Website has improved its results, both at a qualitative and quantitative level, since it keeps increasing it size, it maintains a high level of pages served and it has reached a outstanding position in the main rankings and indicators.

Thus, in the latest edition of the main ranking of universities websites, Webometrics, has positioned the UA website in the eighth position in Spain. This is the best position achieved so far in this ranking. The UA has normally been ranked around the 10th position, which is an excellent position given our own features.

This positive datum is also supported by its maintenance in Google’s PageRank of 8 out of 10. The Complutense University is the only Spanish university with a higher PageRank (9/10).

According to the Vice President for Technology & Educational Innovation, Faraón Llorens, these data are excellent and we expect to keep up this position, although it is higher than expected if we take into account its relatively new creation and medium size. On the other hand, the Vice President for Institutional Relations, Aránzazu Calzada, stataes that the Corporate Website is a key element to organize both the management and communication of the University. Therefore, the results are highly successful due to the daily work performed and the process of improvement and revision carried out by the University of Alicante’s Corporate Web Committee.

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University rankings are more and more becoming a key element for the analysis of reality, efficiency and potential of the Spanish University.

- About Webometrics ranking

Webometrics is a ranking web of world universities which emerged as an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, attached to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The web indicators used are based on and correlated with traditional bibliometric and sciencemetric indicators. It is specifically based on the proposals quoted on the Berlin Document ‘Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions’.

- About Google’s PageRank

PageRank is a registered and patented trademark by Google which assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents. PageRank system is used by Google search engine to help determine relevance
of a given page.

- University of Alicante’s Corporate Web Committee

On the 19th March 2010, the Futura Education Fair will open its doors in Barcelona’s Montjuic Exhibition Centre. The Fair will last two days and is aimed at students interested in Master’s degrees as well as other postgraduate courses held by Universities, business schools and education centres with public and private study programs in line with the Bologna Plan.

The Futura fair will also be host to the Job Forum, a space where recruitment companies will assist recent graduates as well as professionals who are seeking employment.

The Futura exhibition aims to attract a mix of higher eduation policy-makers, researchers, practitionaers, HR managers and personnel, teachers and students, buyers and suppliers as well as a range of other experts and professionals.

Exhibitor’s Profile

• Universities
• Business schools
• Further education and management development centres
• Human resource consultants
• Banking and financial entities
• Professional associations
• Foundations

Further information can be found on their website: www.salofutura.com or via telephone under: (+34)932332000.

The first “gastronomic university” in the world is set to be set up in Spain.

The university will offer four year courses in culinary arts. Teaching will be both in English as well as Spanish. The University will also offer a one year Master’s degree as well as shorter courses for students who want to perfection their cooking skills.

Famous chef and owner of Michelin-star acclaimed El Bulli restaurant, Ferran Adria will be teaching students as well as British chef and Fat Duck owner Heston Blumenthal.