Mission, vision and values
Mission
- The mission of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Santiago de Compostela is to contribute to the comprehensive training of professionals committed to the health, well-being and psychological and psychosocial development of individuals and the community, in an academic context that promotes the generation and application of knowledge in the discipline.
Vision
- This Faculty wishes to be recognised in the university and social context for: a) developing training programmes that guarantee the best and most appropriate training for its students and that respond to the needs of society and its demands in the areas of work and research; b) guaranteeing the appropriate professional development conditions for its teaching, research and service staff; and c) accounting for the investment and optimisation of its resources.
Values
The Faculty of Psychology is governed by a commitment to the following ethical and professional principles:
- Responsibility towards students and society, providing training aimed at excellence that meets the needs and expectations of our users and society as a whole.
- Commitment to the professional code of ethics, promoting the knowledge and use of the ethical principles that should guide the academic and professional performance of psychology.
- Orientation towards integration, participation and equality, paying attention to the needs of all the groups that make up the Faculty, and guaranteeing their integration, participation and equality.
- Transparency in the management of its training programmes and improvement initiatives, ensuring transparency in processes and results, as well as the dissemination of these to the different stakeholders.
Objectives
- Taking the quality policy of the USC as a reference, the Faculty of Psychology marks the development of updated and socially relevant training programmes as its main goal, which are guaranteed by a quality management, through the following objectives:
- To plan its studies making the most effective use of the resources, human and material, available.
- To guarantee the development of training programmes with student guidance, expressed through guidance activities at the beginning, during and at the end of the studies, with attention to diversity and special needs, with the offer of activities to achieve transversal competences and with the promotion of external work placements and mobility.
- To attend to the improvement of the conditions of the different groups of employees that make up the Faculty, promoting sufficient staff, as well as the adequate recognition of their activity, encouraging the continuous training of the teaching staff and the administration and services staff, and facilitating, by organising the work, the conciliation between personal and professional life.
- To ensure the quality of material resources and services, through adequate maintenance and renewal of equipment and facilities to be at the level required by training programmes in terms of scientific equipment, ICT, new resources for learning, attention to protocols for risk prevention and safety at work, as well as the needs relating to accessibility and integration of people with special needs.
- To use the evaluation and monitoring of the results of the training and the quality assurance system to update and improve the training processes, by analysing the achievement of the learning results, the adequacy of the competences to the professional practice, the satisfaction of stakeholders, analysis of the effectiveness of the procedures and incidents and suggestions of the stakeholders.
- To guarantee the public availability of all relevant information for stakeholders in relation to the Faculty's training offer, in order to facilitate informed decision-making and enable their participation in improvement processes.