Statute of Autonomy of the University of Universitat, 1933

From the beginning of the twentieth century and for practically three decades afterwards there were various initiatives intended to promote reforms of the Catalan education system. Finally, and after a first attempt at autonomy applied to the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (1931) the Decree granting the Statute of the Autonomous University of Barcelona was published, at the suggestion of the Government of Catalonia, on 1 June 1933. The Statute represented a long-anticipated tool for moving forward in constructing a higher education system that would be on a level with the leading ones in Europe.