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26/09/2014 20:05
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Published: Sunday September 21, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Sunday September 21, 2014 MYT 11:32:13 AM
Focus on English at Spain’s schools
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Spain’s lost generation Tuesday, 09 September 2014 17:36
13/09/2014 20:16
Spain boasts the unflattering title of having the highest number of NEETS (young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training) in the entire European Union.
Nearly one in four (25.79 per cent) of young people aged between 15 and 29 in Spain are doing absolutely nothing, a report has...
The silent history of Spanish illiteracy More than 730,000 Spaniards can’t read or write, most of them older women, migrants or Roma
13/09/2014 20:08
They are learning to write the word “historia” (history). The teacher asks how to spell it, and the students, some of whom are 68 years old, try their luck: “With an I?” “With a Y?” “In capital letters?”
Seconds later, the mystery is revealed. The word begins with a silent H – the...
A degree is worth less in Spain than in rest of EU Published: 09 Sep 2014 13:51 GMT+02:00 Updated: 09 Sep 2014 13:51 GMT+02:00
12/09/2014 22:24
A degree is worth less in Spain than in rest of EU
Published: 09 Sep 2014 13:51 GMT+02:00
Updated: 09 Sep 2014 13:51 GMT+02:00
More young people in Spain are NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) than anywhere else in the EU, with graduate unemployment also tripling the OECD...
Bilingual schools tackle Spain’s language shortfall
12/09/2014 12:15
Pupils walk by a sign reading ‘Climate Change’ in English at the Doctor Tolosa Latour public school in Madrid.
By Anna Cuenca, AFP/Madrid
Hello everybody, how are you?” asks the teacher, and two dozen Spanish-accented voices reply in unison, in well-drilled English: “I’m fine, thank you.”
It’s...
Graduates in Italy and Spain have low basic skills, says OECD report Report says university graduates in the southern Europea are less skilled than high school leavers in Japan and Holland
12/09/2014 12:12
Lizzy Davies in Rome and Peter Walker
theguardian.com,
Tuesday 9 September 2014 10.31 BST
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Andreas Schleicher: 'You might ask why so many graduates in Spain and Italy are unemployed. But when you look at the...