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This paper summarizes a few aspects of the February Report Proposals for a reform and improvement of the quality and efficiency of the Spanish University System, prepared at the request of the SpanishMinister of Education by a nine Experts Commission that included the present authors. The paper addresses several drawbacks of the Spanish university system, namely, the frequent duplication of Centers covering the same studies and degrees within very small geographical areas, an inadequate selection of university lecturers, a and an insufficient funding

This paper analyzes the Spanish educational reformof 2013, based on new principles of LOMCE that qualify the old principle of inclusive education which however continues to restrict academic freedom in private schools with public funding. At the same time, this principle is limited by the recognition of this schools´ right to make a different offer based on single sex education. Moreover, this reform strengthens the dispersal of Spanish education system, divided by 17 autonomous communities, with less than 50% uniformity. Also, it does not clarify

Universities are training contexts with special characteristics, some of which are now undergoing profound change processes.So, having a well-prepared teaching staff has become a basic need that requires, in turn, having training plans as a strategic resource for improving the institutional development. The challenge now lies in how to design new teacher education programs more tailored to the changing context of the new Higher Education institutions: less casual and more systematic training, with targets from medium to long term, training focused

Since 2010 eight Catalan public universities are jointly investigating about the identification of the competences profile for higher education teachers. Specially focused at indicators of the core competencies for the development of teaching at the University. This paper presents the work and conclusions reached for the set of public universities of Catalonia, with 15.214 professors and 203.406 students. The purpose of the work is to help universities and higher education institutions who are responsible for the training of university teachers.

Teach must have as its object not to seek the correct answer but reach wisdom, capturing true reasoning. To reach this goal, it is necessary to foster the aspiration of reaching true knowledge and not just reach what is useful or what is the most common opinion. This requires addressing three issues. The first is to discover the importance of desire in the life of the human being, as well as its main characteristics, that break their current union with the idea of lack of things, or which limit the scope of desire merely to sexuality. Naturally,

Health prevention and physical activities are actually matching a fulfilled, balanced and self determined human daily life. This study was conceived and run in order to support this very important and necessary cognition and to involve the findings after all into a new subject in school education (Individual and Health"). The aim of our empiric study was the research of correlations between health supporting behaviour and selected personality characteristics within university students as well as the analysis of mistakes in their lifestyle. This

In this paper we present an analysis of the semantics of natural kind terms within the educational discourse of the experimental sciences. To delimit the problem, we have employed the internism vs externismdichotomy put forward by Hilary Putnam in his historical work TheMeaning of Meaning. Besides, we have focused on constructivist approaches to the educational process. We conclude that constructivism necessarily implies an internism for natural kind terms, the only exception being social constructivist approaches.

The introduction of entrepreneurship in the Spanish educational system as basic competency, since 2006, is due to a European concept of education for the development of the entrepreneurial culture. In Andalusia (Spain), the EME program has been prepared to develop educational entrepreneurship. We need to know what real impact is producing such programs and for this we made a narrative inquiry, a multiple biographical study, with students who have participated in the EME. With this research, we try to understand how their formative experiences have

Kinship Foster Care is today the most common measure in those situations in which social services consider that a child must be removed from the home of the parents in order to ensure his/her welfare. The purpose of this article is to propose a pedagogical reflection about two fundamental questions of socio-educational actions in this measure of child protection: identity formation and educational relationship. Continuity that kinship foster care provides to the life story of children constitutes one of its best benefits, because it facilitates

This paper focuses on the educational ideals in Ortografía castellana (1609) by Mateo Alemán. He is best known as the author of Guzmán de Alfarache, the first picaresque novel recognized by that name.When studying the references to education and literacy, we first find the disagreement between past teachers and good teachers. The second chapter of the spelling De la ignorancia de los maestros pasados y cuánto importa la enmienda de los presentes, facilitando el escribir ortógrafamente" presents a critical analysis of sixteenth century literacy