Measuring competition between university centers: the case of undergraduate degrees in Spain

In the last years, Spain has seen an increase in the number of students enrolled at the university. This project aspires to understand the market of undergraduate studies in the Spanish system, to define a proper context for the study of competition in this market and to calculate and evaluate this competition. The first phase of this work will involve the recollection of information that will allow the future study. This gathering will include the definition of topics such as market, competition and geographic accessibility, and the description of the Spanish market of undergraduate studies, with a focus on the students’ habits and the available sources of information that will be used. Once this ground has been built, the most relevant indicators of competition and geographical accessibility will be introduced. It will be necessary to consider the scope of the project in order to make a viable proposal of the indicators that will be used in the study. Finally, the data study will be carried out. In order to do so, a database with all the study centres in Spain will be generated. Then, the relation between different categories of study centres will be studied, which together with a proper methodology will allow the calculation of accessibility and competition. Six different cases for each category will be studied (3 different radius, together with 2 substitution hypotheses), which will allow analysing the competition performance from different angles. Microsoft Excel will be the main program used for our project, because it includes all the needed formulas and it has the potential to produce long calculations. Some analysis will use Minitab, especially for the representation of data. After the calculations have been carried out, the results will be added to the report via a Spanish map, which will provide a powerful way of visualization. Some additional analysis may be carried out in order to better understand the overall performance. To conclude, some relation between competition and other factors is found, such as quality of studies and population of a province. It is important to notice that the main goal of the project is to develop an initial analysis of the Undergraduate studies’ state in Spain, and therefore, this study may serve as a basis for future research on the topic

Report of the Seminar on Brahmabandhab Upapdhyay

Information about the Seminar on Brahmabandhab Upapdhyay, held at the Vidyajyoti Faculty of Theology in Delhi

GUIDELINES TO CORRECTLY READ SPANISH TERMS FROM GREEK AND LATIN ORIGIN

El presente trabajo trata de señalar las pautas generales para una lectura correctade aquellas palabras originarias latinas que pasaron al castellano, así como delas palabras de origen griego que fueron introducidas al castellano a través de lalengua latina. En el caso de los neologismos griegos modernos que no tuvieroncomo intermediaria la lengua latina, el castellano mantiene generalmente laacentuación griega original. Finalmente, analiza algunas palabras sobre cuyapronunciación el castellano, en ciertas ocasiones, ofrece dudas.All of us possibly have had doubts about the pronunciation of neologisms or termsderived from Greek or Latin because of the uncertainty of the location of its tonicor unstressed syllables. This paper intends to point out the general guidelines for a correct reading ofthose original Latin words passed into Spanish, as well as words from Greek originwhich were introduced into Spanish through the Latin language. For ModernGreek neologisms which did not have Latin as an intermediary, Spanish generallykeeps the original Greek stress. Finally, we analyze some words about which pronunciationSpanish offers doubts, on certain occasions