El Programa de Acción Tutorial como complemento de la acción docente en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES)

This paper is inserted into the study of changes resulting from the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA). In particular, it is focused on the role of the Tutorial Action Program from the perspective of teachers and students. For the purposes of this work, the experience of the Program lecturer - tutor of the Escuela de Estudios Empresariales of the University of Oviedo is considered. The characteristics of the lecturers participating in this Program, as well as the valuation that the students have done of it through a survey, are studied. The obtained results reveal the need to introduce changes to facilitate the transformation of the current teaching in a model that incorporates training and educational functions. Finally, we make some proposals for academic tutoring to be rewarding for the teacher and fully exploited by the students.