Spain education

For education in Spain the combination of centuries-old academic traditions to dynamism of the curriculums adapting for requirements of today's Europe, is characteristic. Recently the education system of Spain was promptly integrated into the all-European system. With that aim in period from 1996 to 2000 the reform of the education which have mentioned in basic initial and the average school was carried out. Transition to the European general educational standards was a main objective of this reform, first of all.
 
Ample opportunities of the professional market of Spain involve youth of the different countries. Many of them consider an education question in Spain as the first step of the future professional career in this country and other countries of the European Union.
 
The Spanish universities - hardly probable not the oldest in the world. Very first of them has been founded in Salamanca in 1218. Historians consider, that the king of Leon the Gigolo IX has founded it in reply to university establishment in Plasency by his cousin and contender the Gigolo VIII Kastilsky. The Salamanca University has quickly absorbed all newest directions in sciences and in 30 years the pope has proclaimed its one of four best Universities of the world. Here Columbus has presented for the first time his original project on theology faculty. In the same place taught Latin the first-ever woman-professor Beatrice de Galindo. It is considered, that in Salamanca Cervantes and conquistador Ernan Cortes had studied.

Universities in Barcelona and Granada are widely known in the world also. The Barcelonian University has appeared in 1450, and Granada's - in 1526. To the most prestigious state high schools of the country carry also some more of so called "young" universities - Madrid, Seville and Valencian.