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A new proposal of Real Estate Degree according to Bolognia requirements. Paloma Taltavull de La Paz International Economy Institute, University of Alicante, Spain Prepared to: 4th ERES Education Seminar Bucharest, 4-6, December, 2008. Index. Why Bolognia process?. Why Bolognia process?.
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A new proposal of Real Estate Degree according to Bolognia requirements Paloma Taltavull de La Paz International Economy Institute, University of Alicante, Spain Prepared to: 4th ERES Education Seminar Bucharest, 4-6, December, 2008
Index • Why Bolognia process?
Why Bolognia process? • Similar design across Europe, at least, on the capabilities and habilities level. • www.eurydice.org • To allow profesionals to move • Cooperation among profesional bodies • To guarantee the recognition of degrees • To facilitate the free movements of students among • Very intense regarding the Erasmus program • Most countries are changing the structure of their University studies
Bolognia system… • June, 1999 Bologna Declaration: EEHE (European Espace for Higher Education) • Aim: to make EEHE more CCCA: • compatible, • comparable, • competitive and • attractive • September, 2003 defining • The Three Priorities : the degree system, quality assurance and recognition of degrees and study periods • Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013
Aims.. • Unify the structure of University studies: make the studies recognizable • Allow students to ‘change’ among universities... Continuing education in any part of Europe • Also each University basic study has to fit ‘professional competences’
Real estate studies • An opportunity for real estate education • Strong need of education in the new era • Need to develop knowledge • Need to face and understand changes on the market • Existing many professional competences across Europe • Need to be related and coordinated • Need to converge the technical and ethical rules, • Research on real estate markets needs skilled people from the beginning
Multidisciplinar RE Education • Multidisciplinary education: Law, Economics/ finance/ accounting, technical construction, technological tools • Common core • Intensity depending on the profession • Much more difficult: changing world • Changes on market: globalization • International flow of capital to real estate • Increasing regulations and knowledge: Specialised market • From a technical to a business discipline • Emphasis on business skills • Real estate professions: Valuers, Surveyors, property/real estate managers, brokers, construction managers, RE advisors, RE finance
Design of RE education in Alicante University • Four ‘pilars’: • Construction technology • To recognize building problems (not design, not interviene..) • Economics, business and finance • To know how the market works, techniques, finance, decission process • Law …. Regulation • Tools …. Information Technology, GIS • On ‘basic’ knowledge • Statistics, Mathematics, accounting • Basic regulation, both national and European • Basic IT • Developing: • knowledge (economics, law, etc) • skills (presentation skills, negotiation skills, etc.) • Attitude (honesty, politeness, etc.) • Plus Competences: All previous contents related to the activities of the professional • What they do • Aspects of the real estate business • As stakeholders in the real estate market?
Design of RE education in Alicante University: The grade • New Spanish High Education Act establishes, as official degree: • Degree will have 240 ECTS credits • 60 ECTS credits as ‘common core’ across Universities:.. Basic competences • With ‘ Transversal’ knowledge • 60 + another 60 ECTS… Certificate of basic Knowledge. • Rest (120 ECTS) defined by each University.
Design of RE Studies in Alicante University: The grade Modules from other Universities
Design of RE education in Alicante University: The master for highest specialisation • Very specialised .. 2 masters • Valuation • Construction management • Based on Real Estate degree • But compatible (with adaptation course) with the following degrees: • Business, Economics • Law • Building engineering
The role of University cooperation • Last 60 degrees, students could take the rest of the course in other University. • Also masters could be shared by Universities • Improve the University cooperation • Exchanging staff • Exchanging students • Coordination of degrees: • Joint degress • Intensive modules across countries • Specialisation by country • Cooperation on master or doctorate
Professional competences • Degree: property/real estate managers, brokers, construction managers, • Máster: more specialised professions: Valuers/tasadores, Surveyors, RE advisors, RE finance
Conclusions • Opportunity for create a ‘building’ in real estate studies across Europe • Difficult ...due to their multidisciplinarity • Specialisation among European universities?? • With increasing number of experiences in most European countries • Need cooperation and knowledge transfer