Vinculación postcrisis entre empleo y esfuerzo universitarioperspectiva comparada de España y Canarias (1996-2017)

Abstract

The exit from the economic crisis has manifested itself in Spain with an intense job creation during the last 3 years (+2.1 million). In order to know the value of the culture of effort when obtaining a higher education, this paper analyzes the context and the recent evolution of university education in Spain and the Canary Islands in perspective compared to the rest of the European Union and the countries of the OECD, as well as the main public and private resources existing in the educational transition to employment, detailing the most important results of public management of higher degrees and their effects on the level of social inclusion of the population. Through the usual methodology of Political Science and social research, a diachronic design (1996-2017) is carried out around five blocks: context and evolution; human and economic resources; schooling; educational processes; and results. The discussion is structured through a longitudinal-temporal and cross-comparative analysis of the most important official statistical variables on higher education, based on the previously established theoretical position. The most important conclusions indicate lights and shadows in the Canarian university panorama, and a close link in Spain between the provision of higher qualification and the occupation of the new jobs created since 2014, as well as the gradual abandonment of continuing education among the occupied since the end of the recession and certain structural difficulties in the Spanish public university.)