All Entries in the "Spanish Education System" Category
Praise for Catalan language policies
I read with interest Erik’s post from his blog at wirdheim in vilanova and I have to praise his unbiased views. I say this as quite a few people have just lately left a few less than savoury comments in their efforts to make their mark and force their opinions on others. He explains that [...]
80% of teachers on strike in Catalunya
80% of teachers (excluding universities) in Cataunya today have decided to go on strike in protest of a future law regarding education in the region. These past few days teachers have been “recommending” that children stay at home as “we can’t guarantee the service that a child deserves” said Rosa Cañadell – spokesperson from the [...]
Catalonia’s linguistic immersion programme
The first phase of Catalonia’s linguistic immersion programme will start on february 6th and will see the best part of 80,000 immigrants learning Catalan until the year 2013. These will be mainly infant and primary school children. This first phase will see 84 schools participating – the majority being in Barcelona with 425 teachers taking [...]
Catalan kids don’t know their Spanish geography!
I was sort of horrified to learn this morning whilst my 10 year old daughter was going over her homework in Catalan that Catalonia’s primary school children know virtually nothing about the rest of Spain regarding geography. My wife happened to ask her if she knew any of the names of Spain’s river and she drew a [...]
