Transfer of science, education and mines will affect 3,160 students

The School of Mines will move to Mires in ten months, according to the University of Oviedo’s calendar. Following the July exams at Cali India’s facilities, lessons will begin in September at the Paredo Campus. In this way, it will begin a plan full of changes to the premises of the university, which will continue with the construction of “Campus B” in El Cristo to initially house the Faculty of Science, which will give up its space to the district court, and later, the teacher training college will change its location so that the courts will occupy this space also.

In total, 3,160 students will be affected by this plan promoted by the University of Oviedo and the Principality with two primary goals: to bring together thirty-six courts in the Asturian capital – next year there will be thirty-seven with the creation of a new first-class one – and to combine mine studies in Meres.

Earning space for some undergraduate studies is another priority. The College for Teacher Training and Education, with Celestino Rodriguez as its dean, is “at the limit”. The facilities have been very small for a long time and we “continue to teach in geology”. This course will train 2,300 students and one of the distinguishing features is that they have “very large groups”. In short, “the 11,000 square meters we have is not enough for everything.” Therefore, it is necessary to implement this transportation plan because we “all need to be in the same building” and meet basic needs. “There are currently no spaces to store and do work and interact,” he explains. He adds that the “gym is outdated” and asks as soon as possible to occupy a new headquarters in El Cristo in order to “design the college of the future” with new degrees such as the dual degree for infants, elementary and sports.

A situation that is repeated in the Faculty of Sciences, where Juan Manuel Noriega is in charge, because they need “two semesters larger than we have here” to accommodate 720 students. They also occupy one of the geology classes and “all the professors’ offices are scattered” between this college of geology and teacher training. “Here we have almost all the infotainment and we’ve been like this for a long time,” Noriega repeats. The intention was, at first, that after Minas left central Oviedo, they would occupy the free space. However, Noriega hopes to move “directly to El Cristo”, where they can grow through the “dual degree of Computer Science and Mathematics”.

In the meantime, the Dean of the Bar hopes that there will be agility in moving these offices to El Cristo so that justice can occupy the remaining empty space. “The next step for the Emirate to take is one of economic content; If it does not happen it will be just a will.” In this sense, the Deputy Minister of Justice, Encarnacion Vicente, noted that “the conversion of colleges into courts cannot be done within a year.”

Attention to mine

If the Deans of Teacher Training and Science are willing to occupy new facilities, the opposite happens in the School of Mines. The center’s management, with the support of the city council, opposes the University of Oviedo’s plans to focus studies in Meres, but the university’s president’s intentions continue to await the board of directors to discuss the matter. The goal is for the relocation to take place in the summer, but director Francisco Javier Iglesias is concerned about two issues: the transfer of 140 students and the lack of specialized laboratories. He justifies that on Istiklal Street there is a specialized room for “nuclear energy” that does not exist on the Baredo campus and “there are machines that cannot be taken.” He also adds that the quality of studies can be lost because there are teachers who can choose to stay in Oviedo.