Comparing US And Spain's Higher Education System

This essay will compare and contrast the higher education system between the United Kingdom and Spain in terns of funding tuition fees, student accommodation and organization in order to show what country invest more in education and which country has the best university system. The globalized world in which we lived, education have a very important role in our society. For this reason, our government are committed to encouraging and nurture the educational system of each of our own countries. The United Kingdom and Spain are a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. Both are developed countries, United Kingdom has the world’s fifth-largest economy by GDP and Spain has the world’s fourteenth largest economy by GDP.

However, Britain has the most expensive state university tuition fees in the world. Spain has increased the investment but its remains below the OECD average 5.6%. Spain has one of the cheapest education systems in EU. United Kingdom has some differences across the four countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) in term of funding of higher education, for example, Scotland has no tuition fees for higher education for Scottish student studying in Scotland. In Spain have 17 regional governments in the point of decentralised financial responsibility for education and all of then applied the same conditions for higher education. In the United Kingdom, the government introduced recent changes with the purpose to ensure financial sustainability of tertiary education by decreasing the relative part of public funding through an increase in tuition fees. There is tension that more changes could limit access to higher education in the next years. Spain introduced cuts at national and regional levels affected the education system since 2010 through budget adjustments due to the crisis in -1.5% above the