DESIGUALDAD TERRITORIAL EN EDUCACIÓN Y GESTIÓN DE LAS COMPETENCIAS POR LAS CC.AA.

Abstract

A study which is structured into 4 sections (introduction, economic and social context, territorial differences among educational indicators, analysis and proposals) is shown. It intends to answer the following question: ‘Does the current model -which transfers competencies to the autonomous communities- reduce territorial inequalties in education or does that model increase them?’.

In the section concerning the context, the document states that if we assume the same expenditure per student in the autonomous communities with the greatest and the lowest investment in education, it will respectively mean the half or the double of their regional GDP percentage. Additionally, the lower the GDP per capita is in an autonomous community, the higher is the percentage of students who attend to state schools, and vice versa.

In the third section, the territorial differences among educational administrations are analysed. For this purpose, sixteen indicators sorted into 4 categories (schooling, resources, processes, outcomes) are compared, so that their development in the different autonomous communities since the year 2000 provides relevant information to analyse how the territorial gap has been changing for the last years.

The last section, regarding analysis and proposals, only summarizes data about compared indicators and formulates a single proposal which is not concrete nor in-depth.