Education & Employment news & information for Madrid

BUDGET clothing store Primark has announced plans to open another branch in Madrid next month – the chain's 61st retail outlet in Spain.

THREE cities in Spain have made it into the latest list of the best for home-workers after the 80 most popular choices were revealed.

A 'QUALITY of life' survey among residents in Spain's biggest cities shows attitudes have changed since the start of the pandemic, according to national consumer organisation OCU, which conducted the...

UNIVERSITIES are starting to carry out fast-track antigen tests on adults from age 18 and under 30 in a bid to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus after reports revealed that older teens and young adults were most...

A GROWING trend towards working from home triggered almost by default in early 2020 means the pull of big, global cities is slackening off – but those which the world's employees remain attracted to are largely in...

CHILDREN, teens and young adults across Spain have been going back to school and college this week, and parents digging deep in their pockets to find the cash for textbooks and notebooks – which pupils are required to...

ONLINE retail giant Amazon needs 200 new employees for its Kindle technological development team in Madrid.

AN ONGOING saga of 'dodgy diplomas' affecting Madrid's Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) has taken another, more sinister twist: hot on the heels of two MPs' resignations over master's degrees being...

ONLINE retail giant Amazon is facing its first possible strike in Spain and what will be the company's largest in Europe to date.

MADRID is considering offering tax breaks to companies which encourage working from home, or remotely, and may include those which give employees the option of flexitime or staggered hours.

SCHOOL textbooks will be free of charge for all pupils up to fifth form inclusive from September next year in a pioneering move by the regional government.

The president of the Comunidad de Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, stated yesterday that the government "would under no circumstances" question the freedom of schools to implement their own rules, provided they...