Reducing the number of students per classroom, one of the main demands of the teaching staff, will cost more than 5 billion euros per year and, however, will have a “limited” impact on student learning, according to a study by EsadeEPol. This conclusion contradicts the practically unanimous demand of the teaching staff and has led the Administration to develop new regulations.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed this Monday a new positive case of hantavirus in one of the Spaniards who remain in preventive quarantine at the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid. The positive case was detected during the periodic diagnostic checks carried out on the contacts under monitoring.
The Ministry of Health of Italy confirmed this Monday the activation of health surveillance, in relation to the Ebola virus outbreak declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, concerning several people who arrived from Uganda in recent hours and the hospitalization of two of those travelers with fever in Milan.
La DANA of Valencia on October 29, 2024 left a deep psychological impact on many minors. This impact has forced schools to implement therapeutic actions to manage trauma in the classrooms. Care that has been carried out in parallel with the reconstruction of the facilities damaged by the flooding.
France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy, the Czech Republic… and, of course, Spain. Europe, especially the western part, is experiencing the first heat wave – although scientifically it may not be classified as such – of the year.
The Spanish-Mexican philosopher Carissa Véliz burst onto the public debate in 2020 with her book Privacy Is Power (Debate), in which she detailed how governments and companies continuously obtain data from us in a surveillance society. Next June she will publish Prophecy (Debate), which the author herself defines as “a reflection on the uses and abuses of prediction, from the Oracle of Delphi to artificial intelligence, because although the technology is very different, the political role it is playing is actually very similar.”
Sin rencor (Diéresis) is not a testimonial book about bullying as usual. It goes much further. The literary debut of Elena de Juan García (Girona, 2004) transcends the personal experience marked by harassment, social emptiness, and digital violence, which she suffered during her last year of high school, to become a profound philosophical reflection on the anatomy of evil, dignity, and forgiveness.
“Dying didn’t matter to me, but stopping making violins…”. The phrase perfectly defines its author, David Bagué (Barcelona, 1964), considered one of the best luthiers in Spain and with the greatest international projection. Beyond having a Creu de Sant Jordi, which is no small thing, the Vienna Philharmonic has three of his instruments (two violins and a cello) and Leonidas Kavakos, one of the best violinists in the world, owns between four and five of his violins. However, at the age of 28 (now he is 61), Bagué began a ordeal that almost took away what he loves most in this life and which is his reason for being: making violins. He was diagnosed with Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare disease from the group of systemic vasculitis, which recently had its world day.
Technology is a great ally of volunteering to bridge social gaps, starting with the digital divide itself, and to open vital opportunities for people of all ages. Although Telefónica’s corporate volunteering has had digital components for many years, 2026 marks a new milestone because it becomes 100% technological volunteering, with three ingredients: it values employees’ talent, drives Fundación Telefónica’s programs, and serves the digital challenges of social entities.
The sectoral table between the Departament de Educació and the unions this Thursday ended without an agreement and with the departure of CGT until the Govern has studied the pay proposal of the strike organizers, while Ustec confirmed that it will attend tomorrow’s meeting.