A twenty-two percent cut to Spain's education budget has stirred up angry voices from the opposition. Still, a deep look at the university system shows that its budget imbalances are unsustainable.
Spain has 78 universities and 236 campuses in almost all of its cities with more than 50,000 citizens. The teacher-to-student ratio is almost one to ten, and it is about half this in the rest of Europe.
In addition to the unfavorable ratio, most universities grant too many diplomas to students set on embarking on various types of careers. The government is betting on streamlining the supply of workers and standardizing career types by geographic areas, which is another thing that we can't allow to happen.
