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This paper is primarily concerned with a number of projects and reports about specific requirements that came out during the fifties at the University of Salamanca. The long history of this institution is still, for its richness and complexity, an essential object of study. Framed in the research devoted to the History of Universities, the paper describes and analyses, through the historical-educational approach, a particular aspect of this institution, projects and academics' reports at a particular stage during Franco's regime. On the other hand, the main aim of this paper is to serve as a stimulus for reflection on the trinominal: reality of the University under Franco's regime - considerations about scholastic reasoning - utopian or feasible proposals. The atmosphere of discontent at the University, the need to reduce the dearth of research or the scarcity of resources will be overt issues in the reviewed documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to measure the relationship between universities and research. The position of every Spanish university is mapped in relative scales of research capabilities, research efforts and research excellence. The method used is based on the analysis of aggregate outcomes, at the research organisation level, of the competition for research funding coming from national government. The period used for construction of the data corresponds to the R+D projects funded by public financing between 1996 and 2001, through National R&D Programmes and the Program for the General Promotion of Knowledge (POC). Special analysis will be devoted to research activities in the sphere of Social and Economic Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]