Education & Employment news & information for Spain

SPAIN'S government has unanimously agreed to renew the non-contributory €430 a month for the unemployed, payable to those whose contributory dole money has expired.

Qualified electricians, carpenters, builders and plumbers are the tradespeople most difficult to find to fill job vacancies in Spanish firms, according to a new study by ManPowerGroup.

JOBLESS figures fell in July to 3.13 million – the best result in nearly a decade – with 200,903 workers taken off the dole compared with the same month last year, according to the ministry of work and social...

SUPERMARKET chain Mercadona has announced nearly 300 new vacancies for engineers, architects, doctors and IT specialists with salaries of up to €68,000 per annum before tax for the most highly-qualified.

WORK inspectors will be on patrol day and night this summer, making impromptu visits in its battle against employee exploitation.

CLASS sizes and teachers' hours are set to go down as Spain's education minister Isabel Celaá gets to work on reversing the former PP government's schools reform, introduced in 2012 with the aim of cutting...

STUDENTS with parents on the lowest incomes may be entitled to a one-off additional grant of €100 on top of their existing means-tested lump sum.

FLY a kite, look at the clouds and describe their shapes, and tell someone you love them looking right into their eyes are on the long homework list children at a primary school in Andalucía have been given.

COMPANY representatives and unions have agreed employees across Spain will be given a 3% annual pay rise until at least the year 2020, when the situation will be reviewed.

COMPANY representatives and unions have agreed on the new government's proposed minimum wage increase just two days before a planned protest was due to take place across the country.

FURIOUS sixth-formers have had to re-sit their university entrance exams today (Tuesday) in the western region of Extremadura after a hacker exposed some of the test questions online.

SPAIN'S minimum wage could be about to go up within the next week, to €1,000 a month over 14 monthly payments, based upon a double wage slip at Christmas and in August.