University Financing as a Driving Force of Changein Spanish Public Universities

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine how the financing system of the Spanish public universities works in order to show to what extent it may have contributed to foster some of the deficiencies to be obser­ved when studying the productivity of our ins­titutions of higher education. Additionally, the paper attempts to provide a set of proposals related to university funding, being convinced that the implementation of at least some of these proposals could give a boost to the chan­ges that both the university system and the Spanish society require.