Spain has an educational problem. It is not an impression, nor nostalgia for EGB (oh, if only it would return), nor a reactionary conspiracy. The PISA report presented today represents a crash without any cushioning because the excuse of the pandemic, this time, no longer holds. The…
If the data about Catalonia in the national PISA 2025 report presented today were representative of the school system, it would allow citizens to be proud of the education their children receive. Catalonia would be at the top of Spain and would rank among the fifteen best countries in the world.
The PISA 2025 report (Programme for International Student Assessment, in English), released this morning, indicates that Spain is below the OECD and EU averages in the three competencies analyzed (mathematics, reading, and science) and plummets compared to its own 2022 data where a sharp decline had already occurred. It is the worst result in its historical series since the year 2000.
The 2026-2027 school year starts this Tuesday in Catalonia as the previous one ended: with a strike. Despite the request from the councilor Esther Niubó to pause the protest for a normal return to classrooms, the major unions have decided to maintain the strike for the first day, acknowledging that it is a “particularly sensitive” day. That is why it is uncertain what the turnout for the protest will be. Some centers have decided not to join in order to prioritize the reunion of students and the educational community after the summer break. Others will resume the school year with protests from day one.
Starting the course is always a good opportunity to ask questions. The book sector constantly asks them and will put them on the table at the XI edition of the Forum Edita, which was inaugurated this Monday with a tribute to the editor Beatriz de Moura – who passed away last April – and will continue until next September 9.
“The three million is a consolidated figure, a good moment for theater, the best moment in history,” says Isabel Vidal, president of the theatrical companies of Catalonia (Adetca), at the conference presenting the data for the 25-26 season and the Catalunya aixeca el teló gala, which takes place on Monday night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Grupo Godó has announced two appointments in its management structure: Óscar Rodríguez assumes the General Management of Godó Media and Francesc Cano joins as the new director of RAC1 and RAC105. Both organizational changes will take effect from October 1.
Casa Santiveri has avoided bankruptcy by refinancing its debt with the banks. The historic Catalan company, specialized in dietetic and nutrition products, has managed to judicially approve a restructuring plan for its financial liabilities, which exceed 11 million euros.
The European Union wants to be more present in Greenland. While at the White House, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been insisting for months on annexing the Arctic island, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has traveled to Von der Leyen to announce a new strategy towards the island that includes 200 million euros more in investments and also a strengthening of political ties with the Danish autonomous territory, whose future, she has insisted, concerns only Greenland and Denmark “and no one else.”
The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, admitted this Monday that the electoral victory of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt is a shock for him and for his party, the Christian Democratic CDU, which collapsed at the polls, but also for Germany in general. At a press conference in Berlin alongside the still regional president of the state, the Christian Democrat Sven Schulze, the Chancellor said that this victory “will have consequences” and that “it is not possible to simply return to the agenda without more.”
