Spain boasts a higher education enrolment rate of 20% among fifteen to nineteen year olds, nearly double the OECD and EU 25 averages of 11%. According to the OECD’s ‘Education Panorama 2025’ report, it indicates that 39% access higher education through vocational training, significantly higher than the OECD’s sixteen per cent. Additionally, the female participation
The Congress of Deputies has rejected a bill to reduce the workweek from forty to thirty-seven and a half hours without a pay cut. In what is being seen as a setback for the government – especially for Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz – opposition parties such as the PP, Vox, and Junts, successfully
A new educational programme has been launched, aimed at preparing students for emergencies caused by natural disasters and human actions. The initiative was presented at IES Fernando Zóbel in Cuenca and will start this academic year. Over eight million students and nearly eight hundred thousand teachers will benefit from this essential training. Source: https://www.englishradionews.com/news/spain/new-educational-programme-introduced-for-emergency-preparedness/
A judge has requested financial information from the Congress of Deputies and the Navarre Parliament regarding former PSOE secretary Santos Cerdán. He is currently under investigation for alleged involvement in irregular public contract awards and received nearly forty one thousand euros for petrol expenses over six years. The request follows significant discrepancies in reported incomes.
An inspector from the tax authority has detailed how the partner of Madrid’s regional president – Isabel Díaz Ayuso – allegedly used false invoices to reduce his tax burden. The investigation into Alberto González Amador began after a significant revenue increase in 2020. It uncovered fifteen fake invoices worth over one million euros. The case
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has attended the launch of the F-111 Bonifaz frigate at the Navantia shipyard in Ferrol. This first vessel of the F-110 programme represents significant investment and job creation, with over four billion euros invested and nine thousand jobs generated. At the launch event – which was also attended by Queen Sofía
Firefighters in Madrid have discovered the body of a fifty-two-year-old man under more than a metre of rubble following a bar explosion in Puente de Vallecas, which also damaged the residential building above. #Explosión en un bar c/Manuel Maroto #PuenteVallecas.@SAMUR_PC y #SUMMA112 han atendido a 14 heridos, uno de ellos grave. 17 dotaciones de @BomberosMad
The final leg of Spain’s version of the Tour de France, La Vuelta, has been cancelled midway due to clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters in Madrid. The race was paused due to protests, with police attempting to disperse demonstrators. In an official statement, organisers confirmed that stage twenty-one of La Vuelta would not continue,
Begoña Gómez – the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez – has appeared in court regarding her advisor’s appointment. Gómez informed the presiding judge, Juan Carlos Peinado, that her friend Cristina Álvarez had assisted her with specific tasks and had occasionally rendered a ‘favour’, such as contacting a company about sponsorship for a chair she
Severe storms in the Balearic Islands led to widespread flight cancellations and delays yesterday. Palma de Mallorca Airport recorded eighteen cancellations and over two hundred delays, while Ibiza Airport saw twelve flights cancelled. An amber weather alert for rain continues to remain in place for the archipelago, after a day of disruption due to torrential