Nueva propuesta de acceso a la universidad en España, ¿una herramienta para erradicar las desigualdades sociales?

Abstract

During the last few years, the Spanish educational system has assisted a profound transformation, produce, among other things, of the political alternation established in our country, which has brought with him the enactment of numerous educational reforms, in a very short period of time. The last pretend to carry out a series of changes that affect different areas of our system, including university access. Many times, this is conditioned by different factors that revolve around the student, and that go beyond the strictly academic, such as: the family socioeconomic origin, the educational level of the parents, the teaching center, etc. The long and sinuous road that students must go over until they begin their university journey is determined by a lot of elements on which serious social inequalities can be hidden. Using the sociohistorical approach, we intend to analyze the new educational proposal in terms of access, from which, university institutions will be given greater autonomy, so that they themselves are in charge of selecting their students, through of specific access tests, as the main educational powers of the international panorama already do. In this way, there will be a paradigm shift in university access, where higher education institutions will be able to select their students according to their credential, obviating any other element that moves away from academics and that may bring about inequalities in this transition process