What are the largest challenges for the Spanish university system today?
First is a good reform of the teaching system, which we’ve now begun. The reality is that the Spanish universities already have worked very hard and have experimented with pilot and experimental programs with great success. And in that sense I have a great confidence of our ability to be successful. In additional, we have other great themes in the university area that have to do with the financing, especially of the public sector, which is something that is being analyzed and that has to be reviewed by the universities themselves and the government of Spain. Also, we are examining other areas of the private sector that can cooperate in the funding of higher education. Another important theme is that of grants and help to students for studies. We began last year two important practices in the area of grants: one is that study grants are a universal right such that all who fulfill certain requirements have the right to a grant, and there is a need for the state to guarantee this help. We
