Necesidades de formación del profesor universitario en competencias relacionadas con la acción tutorial

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of training of teachers against the competencies that are considered essential   for   the   performance   of   the tutoring   action   in   the   university.   So that there could be valued which are the  strong  points  and  which  are  deficit for  the  production  of  futures  programs of    formation    of    the    professorship opposite to the performance of the new tutoring function inside the EHEA. In this investigation there took part 279 teachers from three Andalusian universities of the diverse  powers  or  knowledge s  areas.  A probability sampling being used for such a selection, of random nature by affixation proportional  depending  on  the  different departments that compose every faculty, sending the questionnaire to each of the subjects selected by means of and e-mail to  his  institutional  mail,  gathering  only the results of the persons who agreed to answer. The obtained results allow to clarify which are the competences that more the university teachers possess opposite to the performance of the tutoring  function,  likewise,  there  have been extracted what aspects are capable of  improvement.  According  to  sex,  age or  university  affiliation  they  find  small differences  in  the  level  of  competence training. The professorship of sciences of the education and of the health they are most  qualified  for  the  development  of the competences.  It is possible to come to conclude the need to increase plans and   programs   directed   the   formation of the professorship with regard to the tutoring  function,  one  of  the  principal competences that the new EHEA attaches to the professionals of the university teaching.