The Board of Directors of the Alfonso X University has announced to its university community in a statement that Juan Romo, is at the head of the institution in the hands of the CV Investment Fund. The surprise is not uppercase among its ex -partners of the public, because it immediately agreed to be an advisor to the Alfonso X (academic vice president) abandoning the very prestigious public center. Romo’s possession, mathematician and will be April 21 and will relieve the engineer Isabel Fernández. “After five years in the Rectorate …. Professor Fernández has decided to return to the business world,” says the note.
It is not the first time that a president of the rectors – although the CRUE wages to public and private centers he always directs one of the public network – takes that step. Romo repeats the trajectory of Second Píriz, who was rector of Extremadura and president of CRUE, made the leap to planet and is now in charge of the International University of the Company, in Madrid. He replaced him the rector of Lleida, Roberto Fernández, who did not go to the other side and his successor, José Carlos Gómez Villamonds, that of Córdoba, who is now the Andalusian advisor of University, Research and Innovation of the Junta de Andalucía. going from having a private to five. The public can never compete in salaries with the private. A rector receives his salary as a professor plus a complement (about 500 euros per month) that does not compensate for hours of dedication.
Romo has an leave as a professor of Statistics of Carlos III, an institution from which he left with a bad relationship with his successor, Ángel Arias, and a media scandal about the assignment of a place to a teacher who was not accredited. Romos, very discreet in the public sphere – for example did not grant interviews as president of CRUE – abandoned Carlos III coinciding with an increase in the tension lived with the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso for economic asphyxiation. The six rectors have gone from making war on the other hand to try to save their institution, to a group actions strategy.
On April 4, King Felipe V visited Alfonso X coinciding with the celebrations of the 30 years of the University, thus becoming the last great event with Fernández at the head of the house. The British CVC British Capital Manager, through her Fund VII, became a shareholder in 2019 and the founder, Jesús Núñez, retained part of the shareholders and the presidency of the University. This will soon open another in Malaga, a city where two more private ones will be installed. And other projects wait in Malaga.
