Consolidación de la formación por competencias en la Universidad española: Estudio de un caso

With the support of the Institutional Theory, this paper aims to identify and analyze the factors that are influencing the process of education consolidation by competences in Spanish universities. In order to reach our objective, we have conducted a case study in a university that was a pioneer in the implementation of a syllabus adapted to education by competences. The results of this study show evidence of the influence of driving, facilitator and difficultator factors throughout the various stages of the consolidation process. The study constitutes a reference for the guidance of educators, educative administrations and regulators of the member countriesof the European Higher Education Area for analysis of the identified factors in order to design and implement policies and measures for the consolidation of education by competences. The last section of the paper proposes some of these measures.