The Beato Luis Belda University Center, affiliated with CEU San Pablo, has inaugurated the academic project in an event at the Son Serra Parera estate, which was attended by institutional collaborators, the healthcare sector, future professors, and representatives of the Administration. Among others, the President of the Government, Marga Prohens; the Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera; the Minister of Labor, Public Function, and Social Dialogue, Catalina Cabrer; the Minister of Health, Manuela García; the Mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez; and the Rector of the UIB, Jaume Carot, were present. The ceremony served to officially launch an initiative that starts with the objective of establishing a university campus specialized in Health Sciences in Mallorca, which will begin operating with the first class of Medicine already filled.

The teacher examinations in the Balearic Islands are progressing in a scenario that many applicants describe as “disconcerting” and which the data strongly confirms: in various specialities and islands, the pass rates for the first test (theoretical + learning situation) are extremely low and, in many cases, insufficient to cover all the announced positions. Those who pass the first test move on to the presentation test, and those who advance, to the examination phase.

The PAU 2026 has started this Tuesday with 4,950 students from the Balearic Islands determined to achieve the grade that allows them to access their desired higher education studies. The usual nerves of the first day have been combined with the smiles of those facing the exams with confidence on a day marked by one of this year's main innovations: the implementation of radio frequency detectors to combat academic fraud. "For the moment, we have not detected any," explained the Vice-Rector for Students of the UIB, Cristina Moreno, who detailed that these devices will circulate in all classrooms at the different examination points, although not necessarily during all tests. "We must bear in mind that students know that mobile phones must remain switched off," she added.

“You’re almost there. You’ve completed a demanding high school program, and now the most important thing is to trust yourselves and arrive with a clear head.” This is the main recommendation made by Fèlix Coll, a former student of IES Biel Martí de Ferreries and one of the students with the highest grades in the 2025 Selectividad (university entrance exam), to the students taking it this year. He achieved a score of 9.35 without weighting and is now studying Electronic, Industrial, and Automatic Engineering at the UIB. Coll offers advice for facing the three days of evaluations in the University Access Test (PAU), which this year will be taken by 4,950 students from educational centers in the Balearic Islands on June 2, 3, and 4. The figure is slightly higher than last year, when 4,860 students participated. The majority of the examinees are from Mallorca (80.9%), followed by Ibiza (9.6%), Menorca (9.1%), and Formentera (0.4%). Women continue to be the majority, with 60.2% of the total.

The UIB has asked students taking the University Entrance Exams (PAU) this week to arrive on campus well in advance and to prioritize the use of public transport. Metro and bus frequencies can be consulted on the portals of the Transport of the Balearic Islands (TIB) and the Palma Municipal Transport Company (EMT).

The trade unions CCOO, UGT and STEI Intersindical have announced the postponement of the strike for 0-3 year olds' education scheduled for this Tuesday, June 2. The organizations explain that the decision has been made "out of strict responsibility" and to guarantee the "legal protection of workers".

The celebration and claim of the LGTBIQ+ Pride 2026 will be mostly moved to the Part Forana after disagreements between Ben Amics and the Palma City Council, which have led the association to cancel the musical celebration it had been organizing for years. However, the main demonstration will be held on Sunday, June 28 at 7:00 PM in Plaça d’Espanya in Palma. On the other hand, one of the most anticipated events, the delivery of the Siurell and Dimoni Rosa awards, will take place on Saturday the 27th in Manacor, a municipality that has offered to host activities after the controversy in Palma and the breakdown between Ben Amics and the City Council.

100 years after the death of Joan Alcover, Mallorca has once again sung with one voice La Balanguera, the island's official anthem for three decades. Thousands of people gathered in the Plaça Major in Palma, while dozens of municipalities simultaneously replicated the same scene in a mobilization promoted by the Obra Cultural Balear (OCB), a historic entity in defense of the Catalan language and culture. It also played in educational centers and Eroski chain supermarkets.

Lara de la Torre is a Canary teacher who works in Early Childhood and Primary Education in the Balearic Islands and has explained in a social media video how she learned Catalan in three years, a process that culminated in obtaining the C1 certificate and which she assures is still ongoing. "First of all, reading in Catalan helped me a lot. At first it was difficult for me, but reading everything in Catalan allowed me to learn a lot of new vocabulary and also to better understand weak pronouns. Also, I joined a book club and it was incredible. Secondly, I started using Catalan for everything: at the hairdresser's, at the town hall, at the supermarket, in shops... and without shame, asking any doubt I had. And the most important thing for me has been going to class. This has helped me to have a good structure and good grammar. And this is how I learned Catalan, even though I am still learning."

The Independent, Autonomous and United Union (SIAU) has publicly denounced the events that occurred during the last meeting of the Electoral Board for the union elections of the public business entity Higher Artistic Teachings of the Balearic Islands (EASIB). This year, the union representation of the workers of the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands (CSMIB) and the Higher School of Dramatic Art of the Balearic Islands (ESADIB) must be renewed. SIAU is the union that initiated the electoral process after successfully challenging the prior notice submitted by another union organization.

The Department of Education has announced that positions for teachers and so-called "field" positions will not be able to go through the urgent interim process and that, from now on, they will only be processed through the weekly ordinary procedure. As explained by the counselor Antoni Vera in a parliamentary commission, this is "the only way" to guarantee the control of the Catalan requirement, since the urgent system does not allow verification of the linguistic competence of the applicants. "A position for a teacher or a field position that does not have the Catalan requirement will not be given again," stated the counselor. In the words of a union representative, the urgent procedure "is a sieve" for people who do not master the language.

The Government, through Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca and the Consorci de Transports de Mallorca, will launch a special mobility plan for the University Entrance Exams (PAU), which will be held on June 2, 3, and 4. The objective of the plan is to ensure that students can reach the examination centers by public transport in a fluid and punctual manner, especially at the University of the Balearic Islands campus, where the majority of the exams are concentrated.

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Fright this weekend at Muro beach after several women detected a man secretly recording bathers with his mobile phone hidden. The mother of two of those affected explains what happened: “My two daughters went to Muro beach. They were with my granddaughter, who is four years old.” The woman explains that one of the young women “noticed that an individual was filming them and then some foreign girls nearby.”

After half a year of deadlock, unions and employers have reactivated negotiations to move forward with the autonomous collective agreement for 0-3 year old nursery schools. The deadlock was broken this Monday in a meeting that lasted three hours and brought together the ministers of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, and of Labour, Public Function and Social Dialogue, Catalina Cabrer, as well as the unions CCOO, UGT and STEI, and the employers' associations CECEIB and PIMEM.

Separate students with the best grades from the rest of the students to create an Excellence Bachelor's itinerary. This is the bet of the Department of Education and Universities for the 2026-2027 academic year, which has raised alarms among pedagogues, teachers, and families, who see it as a new step towards educational segregation and a model that questions the idea of inclusive education promoted in recent years. "'Excellent' students must coexist with the rest, because society is like that: diverse," summarizes Joan Jordi Muntaner, doctor in Pedagogy from the UIB. "Contact, relationship, and exchange with diverse people enrich, because the 'good ones' are a model for the rest. Grouping students just because they have a very high performance, is that the only objective?", he asks. With this Bachelor's degree comes a new form of student segregation, which is added to the linguistic one and to the one that will occur with the implementation of the single zone in most of the municipalities of the Balearic Islands.

“As a student who has gone through Baccalaureate and Selectivity and knows the pressure to get a good grade, I find that this Excellence Baccalaureate is a good idea, especially when it comes to learning and expanding knowledge. Having the option to deepen subjects, do laboratory practices, or have the ease of doing a double modality is an opportunity that enriches you a lot and can open more doors for you for the university future, something I would have liked to have at the time”, explains Fèlix Coll, former student of IES Biel Martí de Ferreries and with one of the best grades in the 2025 Selectivity (9.35 unweighted).

“My name is Lara, I am a teacher in the Balearic Islands and I have a C1 in Catalan. After three years living here, of a lot of effort, of hours of study, of a lot of patience, of many days when I said: ‘I don’t understand anything! What are these weak pronouns?’. But finally I have the C1 in Catalan and I can say it very proudly. Has it been difficult for me? Yes. If one day I go to live abroad, will I have wasted my time? No. Demanding that teachers know the language of the place where they teach is not an obstacle: it is a sign of respect for the culture, for the families and for the children”, explains Lara, a teacher in the Balearic Islands who has obtained the C1 certificate after three years of effort and linguistic immersion.

In the classroom, the ones who need help the most don't always get the most attention. Often, the opposite is true. Among students with visible difficulties and a strained educational system, there's a group that still falls by the wayside: students with high abilities. In the Balearic Islands, there are 3,128 identified, a figure much lower than what is estimated to exist. “It has been little recognized, little understood, and little identified”, explains Rosabel Rodríguez, director of the Program for the Attention of Intellectual High Abilities (PACiS) at the UIB. This lack of recognition has consequences: “They are given very deficient educational attention in general. Many times, it doesn't even exist”.

The replacement of the educational management system in the Balearic Islands has opened a deep debate about the role of large private corporations in essential public infrastructures. The Professional College of Teachers of the Balearic Islands has expressed its “concern about the replacement process being carried out by the Ministry of Education and Universities” in relation to the change from the academic management platform GestIB to a new solution called Llull, derived from Séneca and awarded through a public contract to the private corporation Ayesa. In this context, the teaching collective particularly warns of the risk of technological dependence on large external actors in the management of sensitive educational data.