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Teachers arrested over WhatsApp 'secrets' leak
A bit of 'Mean Girls'-esque high school drama has stirred up a small town in the Madrid area after a letter containing the private messages of teachers insulting students and parents was dropped into residents' mailboxes.
Shocking video sends nursery teacher to jail
It is footage that will send shivers down the spine of any parent who leaves their child at nursery - and has sent a Spanish teaching assistant to jail.
UK is top study abroad destination for Spaniards
Could it be the famed fish and chips, the daily drizzle or the Mr Darcy effect? Great Britain is the destination of choice for Spanish students, a new study has revealed.
Tributes paid to hero teacher slain at school
Abel Martínez Oliva was passionate about Barcelona FC and comics, and was a dedicated teacher, friends have revealed, one day after the teacher was killed by a 13-year-old pupil.
Student kills teacher with crossbow in Barcelona
UPDATED: Police have detained a 13-year-old after a teacher was shot dead with a crossbow and several others injured in a Barcelona secondary school.
Spanish schools beat heat in swimwear demo
Three Valencia schools have allowed their pupils to come to school in swimwear and sandals as a protest against 31ºC temperatures inside its classrooms which parents say make studying difficult.
Dad fined for hitting son who didn't do homework
A father who smacked his eight-year-old son for not doing his homework has received a harsh sentence from a Spanish judge.
Child 'brainwashed' into protesting: Government
The government of Spain's Valencia region is investigating a local primary school where it says children as young as six could have been 'brainwashed' into carrying out a political protest.
'Spain has too many unmotivated teachers'
Spain should motivate its best teachers with higher pay and greater autonomy, says the director of the OECD's International Student Assessment Programme (PISA).
'Textbooks should be like desks: always free'
The mother of two has already managed to collect 196,000 signatures for a campaign she hopes will make the Spanish government drop textbook prices and introduce book banks.
New law bans 'Christmas' for Asturias kids
Schoolchildren in the northern Spanish region of Asturias will no longer be able to call Christmas by its name now that a new law passed by the local education ministry prohibits the use of “religious” terms in the classroom when referring to the December and spring holidays.