Abstract
Some reflections on the main problems that novice university instructors face in higher education are presented and discussed. Such difficulties are classified and analyzed in three aspects: that of teaching, that of interpersonal relationships and that of management or institutional context. The importance of an adequate pedagogical training of the novice teacher and the role of the tutorial action are emphasized. The challenges that the novice instructor must face in the present reform of the Spanish university model according to the European Space for Higher Education and the research-teaching conflict are reviewed. This because research activity is not only indispensable for the constant scientific evolution of the university professor, but it is also an aspect that may guarantee continuity of the professor in the university career. Such activity is usually difficult to combine with the purely educational, especially for novice instructors.
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