Teaching information

Types of academic staff

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Enter, through a public contest of merits and opposition and are categorized into:

• Auxiliaries
• Aggregates
• Main

No Holders

• Occasional
• Guests
• Fees and
• Emeritus

Tenured and non-tenured part-time and part-time professors may only carry out teaching activities
They must fulfill the weekly hours according to their dedication time
The ESPOL authority is prohibited from designating, naming, possessing and/or contracting in the same Institution, his relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, his spouse or with whom he maintains a de facto union

General requirements for admission to ESPOL

• Over eighteen years of age and in full exercise of the rights provided by the Constitution of the Republic Research technicians,
• Not be in civil interdiction, not be the debtor who is being followed by the bankruptcy process and not be in a state of fraudulent insolvency declared judicially;
• Not being included in any of the grounds for prohibition to hold public office;
  Have paid;
• Not be in arrears with the payment of credits established in favor of entities or organizations of the public sector;
• Submit the sworn statement of assets that will include: 1. Authorization to lift the secrecy of their bank accounts; 2. Declaration of not owing more than two alimony payments; 3. Declaration of not being involved in nepotism; and,
• In the case of the holders, having been declared the winner in the merit and opposition contest, except in the cases of public servants of popular election or free appointment and removal; and,
• The other requirements established in these Regulations and in the internal rules and provisions of ESPOL, and those indicated in the Constitution of the Republic and the Law.

Entry to the race by public contest of merits and opposition

• It will be possible to enter the race only through a contest of merits and opposition for the categories and levels of: auxiliary 1, aggregate 1 and principal 1.
• The contest will evaluate and guarantee the suitability of the applicants and their free access under the principles of transparency and non-discrimination.
• ESPOL may grant additional points in the merits phase of the competition to occasional academic personnel who have worked as such in the higher education institution for more than five (5) years, consecutive or not.
• The transparency of the process of the public contest of merits and opposition is guaranteed through the publication of its call, the instruments used in the evaluation of the merits and the opposition, as well as the results of all the phases of the contest.
• The public contest of merits and opposition will have a maximum duration of ninety (90) days, counted from its call until the publication of its results. Within this period, the time allocated for contesting results will not be counted.

Occasional academic staff linking requirements

a) Have at least a master's degree or its equivalent, duly recognized and registered in a broad field of knowledge linked to their teaching or research activities;
b)In the field of arts, accredit a master's degree or its equivalent or enjoy recognition and prestige for having developed an outstanding artistic career, recognized by the Inter-institutional Arts Commission; and,
c) Others determined by ESPOL.

Inviting academic staff requirements

• Have at least a master's degree or enjoy academic, scientific, cultural, artistic, professional or business prestige, for having provided relevant services to humanity, the region or the country;
• In the case of carrying out activities within a doctoral program, have an academic degree of doctor (PhD. or its equivalent) in the broad field of knowledge linked to their teaching and research activities, obtained in a research or educational institution. superior, in accordance with the provisions of the LOES; and,
• The other requirements determined by ESPOL that must observe the constitutional and legal norms, as well as guarantee the rights established in the LOES.

Honorary Academic Staff Requirements

• Have a fourth level degree or enjoy proven academic, scientific, cultural, artistic, professional or business prestige, for having provided relevant services to humanity, the region or the country or to ESPOL;
• Have passed at least one of the last two academic performance evaluations with a minimum of 85% of the relevant score, when applicable. In the case of foreign professors whose performance evaluation is qualitative, it must correspond to very good or excellent; and,
• The other requirements determined by ESPOL that must observe the constitutional and legal norms, as well as guarantee the rights established in the LOES.

Emeritus Academic Staff Requirements

• Being a retired ESPOL teacher;
• Having rendered outstanding services for a minimum period of fifteen (15) years as an ESPOL holder;
• Possess an outstanding academic, research or artistic creation record; and,
• Others determined by ESPOL.

Types of Academic Support Personnel

• Teaching technicians,
• Research technicians,
• Laboratory technicians,
• Technicians in the field of arts or teaching artists and other similar denominations established in ESPOL.

Occasional academic support personnel may only be hired under a dependency relationship.
The maximum contracting time for teaching, laboratory and arts technicians will be five (5) years.
In the case of research technicians, the maximum contract time will be two (2) years for grade 1 and four (4) years for grade 2.