The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the creation of an Expert Committee to reform the Spanish university system which, as was asserted by the Minister for Education, Culture and Sport, "is an absolute apriority".
José Ignacio Wert explained that in the last few years university education has expanded greatly in Spain. "We have more than 1.5 million students who have been receiving increasingly more public resources"; spending per student is the same or higher than the OECD average, but the situation "is not satisfactory", he stated.