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Quality Policy
The mission of the Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá is to offer society an internationally recognised, high-quality doctoral education that trains graduates to serve citizens as both professionals and individuals, while expanding the frontiers of science, culture and society. This mission is grounded in a commitment to research excellence, fostering the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of doctoral students, as well as their socially responsible attitude.
The aim is to develop a doctoral training model that is aligned with the University of Alcalá’s research and training strategy, creating the appropriate framework for doctoral students to conduct high-quality, interdisciplinary research with an international focus and industry connections, in order to help graduates enter the labour market.
The School’s main functions are to organise, manage, coordinate and supervise doctoral studies at the University of Alcalá. The School provides a coordinated academic and administrative management structure for all its programmes. This structure is designed to improve organisation, systematise processes and simplify them, and help everyone involved perform their functions. Particular attention is paid to the student body, with the objective of ensuring that these activities are satisfactory for everyone involved.
Quality Objectives
Aligned with the quality management system implemented by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Quality Management at the University of Alcalá, the Doctoral School establishes the following objectives:
- Ensure compliance with the Quality Assurance System, as well as its dissemination, review and updating on a regular basis.
- Propose a high-quality doctoral training offer that meets societal demands.
- Guarantee compliance with the objectives outlined in the Verification Reports for the doctoral programmes and renew their accreditation.
- Propose the necessary modifications to the Verification Reports for doctoral programmes to ensure continuous improvement.
- Offer a doctoral training model that guarantees high-quality, interdisciplinary research with an international focus and industry connections, following the guidelines set by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research and Transfer.
- Ensure the proper functioning of the Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá in order to meet institutional accreditation requirements.
- Ensure that the Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá’s Quality Policy is understood and accepted by all staff and is made publicly available.
- Foster a culture of quality and continuous, systematic improvement in the academic and administrative management of the doctoral programmes.
- Instil a commitment to continuous improvement as standard practice, and propose and implement corrective and preventive actions as needed.
- Provide the Doctoral School’s staff with the necessary support and training according to their respective responsibilities, equipping them with the knowledge needed to perform their duties effectively.
- Ensure that there are procedures to measure and analyse the satisfaction of different stakeholders within the university community, including graduates.
- Provide clear and specific information on the academic and administrative procedures required by students of the Doctoral School.
- Ensure that the teaching staff and doctoral students comply with the provisions set out in the Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá’s Code of Good Practice.
- Ensure transparency regarding the activities carried out and the results obtained. Increase the visibility and dissemination of doctoral theses produced at the Doctoral School. Promote Open Science.
- Establish and develop an action plan to guarantee the quality of the activities conducted at the Doctoral School.
- Execute all quality-related agreements adopted by the corresponding governing bodies.
- Promote quality education, gender equality, solidarity, sustainable development and environmental responsibility.
- Prepare the actions and procedures necessary to achieve the strategic objectives established in the Master Plan.
Quality Assurance Systems Manual
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Work Instructions
ITD_00 REVISIÓN, ACTUALIZACIÓN Y APROBACIÓN DE LA POLÍTICA Y OBJETIVOS DE CALIDAD DEL CENTRO
ITD_01 ACTUALIZACIÓN_MODIFICACIÓN DE LA PÁGINA WEB
ITD_02 GESTIÓN DE VERIFICACIÓN, MODIFICACIÓN Y EXTINCIÓN DE TITULACIONES
ITD_03 JORNADAS DE BIENVENIDA Y OTRAS ACTIVIDADES DE PROMOCIÓN
ITD_05 REALIZACIÓN Y ANÁLISIS DE LAS ENCUESTAS DE SATISFACCIÓN DE LAS ACTIVIDADES FORMATIVAS
Support Guides
As part of its commitment to continuous improvement and excellence in research management, the Doctoral School makes available to its community a series of guidelines and internal directives drawn up by the Research Management Department. These guides support and facilitate the periodic review of key aspects relevant to the centre, complementing the formalised procedures of the Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS). These guides do not constitute formalised IQAS procedures, but serve as a reference to support management and continuous improvement. Their application helps to improve process quality.
Quality Committee EDUAH
Membership
- Head of EDUAH: F. Javier Salas Rey
- PhD Program Coordinators:
- Adoración Pérez Troya - Dpto. Ciencias Jurídicas
- Ana Karina Boltes Espínola- Dpto. Química Analítica, Química Física e Ingeniería Química
- Óscar Rodríguez Polo - Dpto. Automática
- Alfredo Floristán Imizcoz - Dpto. Historia y Filosofía
- Miguel Ángel Núñez Ortega, Dpto. Medicina y Especialidades Médicas
- Representative of the doctoral students
- María Delgado Marín
- Committee Secretary: Carmen de la Peña Montes de Oca
Responsibilities
The Quality Committee is responsible for planning and monitoring the Quality Assurance System and also serves as a channel for internal communication regarding the system’s policy, objectives, plans, programmes, responsibilities and achievements.
The Committee’s responsibilities are those derived from responsibility 9 in Article 5 of the Internal Regulations of the Doctoral School:
a) Proposing the quality policy and objectives for the Doctoral School.
b) Approving and developing the Internal Quality Assurance System for the Doctoral School (IQAS-DS).
c) Continuously reviewing and updating the IQAS-DS.
d) Ensuring, evaluating and improving the quality of activities related to the development of doctoral programmes.
e) Approving the annual monitoring report on doctoral programmes.
f) Approving the reports on the renewal of doctoral programme accreditation.
g) Analysing the Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá’s comprehensive annual internal quality monitoring report and drawing up an improvement plan.
h) Monitoring the results of improvement actions undertaken.
Doctoral Program Quality Committee
The Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá is committed to promoting quality and integrity in research. These principles should be applied throughout the entire research process, including experimental design, data collection and analysis, grant applications and the publication of results. The National Declaration on Scientific Integrity provides details on these principles and ethical responsibilities in research. This Declaration was signed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies (COSCE) and Crue Spanish universities.
All researchers (advisers, thesis supervisors and doctoral students) at the Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá must adopt ethical guidelines for behaviour and subscribe to the School’s Learning and Good Practice Agreement.
The Doctoral School of the University of Alcalá has a Code of Good Practice (PDF), which aims to define the principles, criteria and instruments designed to improve the quality of the doctoral programmes offered by this School.
The University of Alcalá also has an Animal Research and Experimentation Ethics Committee (AREEC), whose mission is to provide information and guidance on ethical issues affecting University of Alcalá research projects. On 18 October 2019, the Committee approved the Code of Ethics for Good Research Practice, which was subsequently approved by the Governing Council on 31 October 2019.
Plagiarism, cheating or falsification of results constitute serious disciplinary offences. (See our Library’s information on plagiarism and copyright).
It is also important for researchers to be familiar with the Personal Data Protection information provided by the University of Alcalá.