The felling and relocation of trees on the UIB campus, especially in the Can López car park (located behind the Guillem Cifre de Colonya and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos buildings), has generated unease among part of the university community, who question the impact of the actions on the campus's landscape and natural heritage.

A committee of experts from various autonomous communities has participated in the technical review of the 2011 inclusive education decree with the aim of elaborating a new regulation adapted to current reality. The joint work has made it possible to define a battery of improvement proposals that will be translated into a draft decree, which the Government plans to submit for public exhibition soon.

Students from schools adhering to the pilot plan for free choice of language obtain significantly lower results in Catalan compared to Spanish. This is reflected in the data from a report that the Ministry of Education has delivered to STEI, which had requested it in the context of the lawsuit against the plan. According to this data, the average score out of 100 in the fourth-grade Primary tests places Catalan at 38 points, compared to 58 points for Spanish, 20 points less. This is the initial evaluation carried out in October 2024 in the participating schools, as established by the resolution regulating the plan. Specifically, the results correspond to the 11 schools that joined in the 2024-2025 academic year, while this year there are already 20 affiliated schools.STEI considers that these figures demonstrate the limitations of the model promoted by the Government. The union recalls that the plan itself sets the objective for schools to "adopt measures to compensate for possible deficiencies in either of the two official languages".

A race against time to get a spot. This is how urgent procedures for substitutions with interim teachers in the Balearic Islands, a system in which merits are no longer a priority: you have to be the first to click on the position as soon as it is posted. The dynamic highlights the tension in the system after that in the last procedure, opened from April 14 to 16, 114 positions were offered that could not be filled by interim teachers who met all the requirements, such as the teaching master's degree and the Catalan language level. This academic year, 644 interim teachers are teaching without having accredited the required Catalan language level according to data from the Ministry of Education, which does not specify the stages or levels affected. This figure triples that of 2022.

Access toyouth emancipation in the Balearic Islands is sufficiently conditioned by place of origin and gender, but also by a context of labor precarity that hinders the construction of solid and independent life projects. This is what the Youth Yearbook 2025 reports, which indicates that the differences in access to housing and employment “show structural inequalities that institutions have not yet tackled with enough force”.

Carme Pinya (Manacor, 1982) took over the deanship of the Faculty of Education in November, taking over from Miquel Oliver. She was already vice-dean in the previous term and is committed to advancing a continuity project that places teacher training at the center. Among the challenges are ensuring the Faculty stays in touch with educational centers and training teachers capable of adapting to an increasingly diverse and complex educational sector.How have these first five months at the head of the deanship been? What is your assessment?

The Network for Educational Language has convened a demonstration this Tuesday in front of the Parliament to reject the measure agreed between the PP and Vox that allows teachers who access civil service positions of difficult coverage to be exempted from the Catalan requirement. The initiative, which is part of the agreements between both formations, has opened a new front of tension in the educational and linguistic sphere in the Balearic Islands. "Pacts with fascists, fascist ideas"; "With Prohens, language is not consensus," shouted the fifty or so demonstrators, who attended on behalf of families, unions, teaching directors, among others.

The Educational Network for Language has called a concentration this Tuesday before the Parliament to reject the measure agreed between the PP and Vox that allows exempting Catalan from the requirement for teachers accessing public service in hard-to-fill positions. The initiative, which is part of the agreements between both parties, has opened a new front of tension in the educational and linguistic sphere in the Balearic Islands. "Pacts with fascists, fascist ideas"; "With Prohens, language is not consensus", shouted the fifty or so demonstrators, who attended on behalf of families, unions, school principals, among others.

One of the most unpleasant episodes of my entire schooling I still have very present. One day, in the dining room, I vomited. And instead of taking care of me, they forced me to eat it. I still remember it with a very vivid feeling of disgust. It was strawberry jam and they made us eat it by the spoonful. I have never tasted it again. It was a period in which the school really indoctrinated, so much so that they now tell us teachers that we do it.

One of the most unpleasant episodes of my entire schooling still stays with me vividly. One day, in the dining hall, I vomited. And instead of taking care of me, they forced me to eat it. I still remember it with a very strong feeling of disgust. It was strawberry jam, and they made us eat it by the spoonful. I have never tried it again. It was a time when school truly indoctrinated, so much so that they now tell us teachers that we do it.

The educational centers of the Balearic Islands have been facing serious problems since the beginning of the year with Llull, the new educational management tool promoted by the Ministry of Education. The system, which will progressively replace GestIB, has been awarded for 5.4 million euros to the multinational Ayesa and has a clear origin: it is the same software used by the Junta de Andalucía, from whom it has been 'copied'. In fact, the implementation itself has evidenced this dependence on the base model, to the point of bizarre situations: "One day I was in Llull, I clicked on validate and sign invoice and a tab from the Junta de Andalucía opened up for me," explains the director of a center in western Mallorca.

The computer system of Son Llàtzer University Hospital has stopped working since early this morning. The breakdown affects the SISN2 software, implemented in December 2022 as the health information system for level 2 hospitals, and used by medical and nursing professionals to manage patient data.

The computer system of Son Llàtzer University Hospital has stopped working since early this morning, between 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM due to a router failure. The system was progressively restored, and by 11:00 AM everything was operational, according to B-Salut. The breakdown affected the SISN2 software, implemented in December 2022 as the health information system for level 2 hospitals, and used by medical and nursing professionals to manage patient data. The incident has prevented the normal development of healthcare activities. "We cannot visit patients," assure the center's healthcare workers.

The single school zone, which will be implemented in most municipalities in the Balearic Islands, The Ministry of Education will apply the single zone starting in the 2026-2027 academic year to all municipalities in Mallorca, except Selva, Calvià, Santa Margalida, and Andratx; to those in Menorca (Maó will maintain a separate zone for Sant Climent) and to Formentera. The towns of Ibiza will maintain diverse areas, at least this academic year.

Catalan has not disappeared from the lives of young people in the Balearic Islands. It is heard in classrooms, in conversations between friends, and in many homes and environments. But it no longer always comes out on its own. Increasingly, speaking it is a choice – and it is here where its immediate future is being played out. The success of initiatives like Acampallengua and the youth presence at language rallies show that the muscle remains active and capable of mobilization. It is not just a symbolic issue: these are spaces where the language is practiced, reinforced, and projected into the future. This year, the first edition of Correllengua Agermanat will test this commitment.

The Ministry of Health has established the monitoring commission for the agreement signed with the National Social Security Institute (INSS) and collaborating mutual insurance companies to improve the management of temporary incapacity and healthcare in cases of traumatological injuries. In this first session, the care pathway has been defined, which will allow patients to be referred from the Health Service to the mutual insurance companies with the aim of speeding up diagnostic tests and therapeutic and rehabilitation treatments.

The Ministry of Education continues to deploy the air conditioning plan for educational centers in the Balearic Islands, with an investment totaling nearly 16.3 million euros. The Balearic Institute of Educational Infrastructure and Services (IBISEC) has put out to tender the drafting of the projects, which can now be consulted on the public procurement platform, for an amount of 172,669 euros. The objective of the plan is to improve the thermal comfort of the buildings and guarantee more comfortable and sustainable spaces. The actions include improvements in insulation, renovation of carpentry, air conditioning systems, boilers, and the installation of solar panels.

The Department of Education and Universities has launched the Docent 360 working group with the aim of improving the emotional well-being of teachers. Despite being an initiative that seeks to reduce work-related stress, improve motivation, and generate a healthier environment, no teacher with daily classroom practice has direct representation, leaving out of the debate the professionals who suffer from the problems that are intended to be addressed.

The Ministry of Education and Universities has launched the Docent 360 working group with the objective of improving the emotional well-being of teachers. Despite being an initiative that seeks to reduce work-related stress, improve motivation, and generate a healthier environment, no teacher with daily classroom practice has direct representation, leaving out of the debate the professionals who suffer from the problems that are intended to be addressed.

If something stuck with me from my school days is that there were very violent teachers. I remember one who beat a child until he was destroyed. Another day, he threw one out the window. Today, it would be unthinkable. Back then, nothing happened. There were also humiliations. A classmate with a facial deformity, who spoke with difficulty, was ridiculed by the principal in front of the entire class. He asked him if he had finished selling coupons. No one laughed. The silence was more eloquent than any laughter.