El bachillerato español: problemática en clave europea

Abstract

En estos momentos, uno de los mayores retos a los que se enfrenta el sistema educativo español —en realidad, todos los sistemas educativos actuales— es elevar el nivel formativo de la población y adaptar la oferta educativa a las necesidades de los jóvenes, potenciando a la vez su inserción en el mercado laboralOur current Baccalaureate model seems to have turned obsolete. From our point of view, it requires an overall revision, at least as far as its structure is concerned. The Spanish educational system appeared to be suffering serious dysfunctions due to the inadequate lenght of this stage —two years— and also to the subsequent and unfortunate model design to University entrance, whose origin dates from 1974. This is even previous to our current Constitution and, of course, to the Organic Law 8/1985, of 3 July, regulating the Right to Education (LODE), the Organic Law 1/1990, of 3 October, General Organisation of the Education System (LOGSE) or the Organic Law 2 /2006, of 3 May, on Education (LOE), which have been legislating the Spanish education for the last 30 years. These two dysfunctional factors of our system, among others, reduce the possibilities of success within the competitive framework that surrounds the Europe of the 21st century. This article aims at providing an overview of the current educational policies in other countries of the European Union, which will allow us to analyze the Spanish model in a wider context from which we can suggest possible improvements