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The PISA Report provides data on 90 educational systems worldwide and ranks them in a final ranking. It does not explain the reasons for the scores. But on this occasion, after the global debacle, it wrote a separate chapter to indicate that the widespread collapse, especially in reading, coincides in time with two phenomena: the widespread use of mobile phones and the use of AI. It links intensive use of artificial intelligence with lower performance. The countries that perform best have used less AI. Spain, in this regard, is a champion in the use and frequency of AI.

OpenAI claims to have found a solution to one of the deepest problems in mathematics that has remained unsolved for 90 years. The company led by Sam Altman has announced that it shares “a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems,” which represent some of the deepest questions at the forefront of mathematics.

Jacob Coxon is an artificial intelligence researcher who had worked training AI models at OpenAI and who has just resigned from Anthropic, concerned about the dangerous way the technology is being developed. “I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are rushing straight towards a self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” he posted on his X account.

The Generalitat of Catalonia has agreed to restrict mobility this Wednesday, implement teleworking, and suspend outdoor educational and sports activities between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the Baix Llobregat, Vallès Occidental, Garraf, Alt Penedès, and Baix Penedès regions due to the forecast of heavy rains. This was announced yesterday by the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, at a press conference where she justified these restrictive measures due to the red alert of intensity five out of six for the risk of heavy rains in these five regions.

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.

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.

Once they have completed Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), Spanish students must begin to decide their academic and professional future. However, six out of ten students reach the university entrance exams without being clear about what to study the following year, just a few months before deciding whether they want to pursue a university degree or a Vocational Training course.