The president of Junts, Laura Borràs, will return to the classrooms this February, after two academic years, to serve as a full professor in the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona (UB), which she will combine with her position at the head of training.
Graduated in Catalan Philology and PhD in Romance Philology from the UB, Borràs is a specialist in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.
Knowledgeable sources have explained to Europa Press that Borràs will resume the Master’s classes in teacher training and in an undergraduate subject, Didactics of Literature.
His position is part of the department of Linguistic, Scientific and Mathematical Education, as also stated on the UB directory website.
Borràs is sentenced to four and a half years in prison and 13 years of disqualification for the crimes of prevarication and falsification of documents when he directed the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC), although the sentence also proposed a partial pardon for the prison sentence.
This disqualification, however, does not prevent her from currently teaching classes at the UB because she was disqualified from holding elective public positions or positions and from government or administrative functions, whether at the local, provincial, regional, state or supranational level. .
Borràs has been a professor at the UB for 28 years, and when she began her political career as Minister of Culture (May 2018-March 2019) she continued teaching, although in a reduced format, and she also did so when she was spokesperson for Junts in Congress (between May 2019 and March 2021).
Although she already had accreditation as an associate professor from the Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya (AQU) since 2012, in March 2021 it emerged, as published by the Official State Gazette (BOE), that Borràs had agreed to a position as a full university professor, thus making it official that she was granted a position as an official of the State university teaching staff.
After her appointment as president of the Parliament in March 2021, she continued teaching until the end of that course – July 2021 – and subsequently requested special services – a leave of absence – because it was “complicated” for her to be able to maintain both dedications.
His leave of absence was extended during his time at the head of the Chamber – which he presided over until July 2022 – and during the trial in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) for his management of the ILC in February and March 2023.
Graduated in Catalan Philology and PhD in Romance Philology from the UB, Borràs is a specialist in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.
