Diana Silva

Diana Silva

Total ban: Education removes all cell phones and smart watches from schools and colleges.

Society | 13/06/2025

Teenagers with cell phones.

"They'll end up evicted from their homes": the housing crisis is the focus of the Catalan exam for the University Entrance Exams (PAU).

Society | 13/06/2025

One of the UB classrooms that currently serve as courts for the university entrance exams

A philosopher featured for the first time in the University Entrance Exam

Society | 12/06/2025

University entrance exam students doing their final revision before the exam at the UB.

'Miarma', 'no ni na', and the triumph of simplistic speeches at the start of the university entrance exams.

Society | 11/06/2025

One of the courts, in a classroom at the UB, this morning

The ombudsman proposes closing schools to combat segregation.

Society | 11/06/2025

High school students from the Institut Escola Arts, on the first day of class this year

The new university entrance exam begins: less optionality, more writing, and controversy over spelling

Society | 11/06/2025

One of the UB classrooms that currently serve as courts for the university entrance exams

Three euros per exam: How are they chosen and what do the university entrance exam examiners take into account?

Society | 09/06/2025

A PAU exam invigilator in a file image.

The level of new university students: "The problem isn't spelling, it's that they don't understand how the language works."

Society | 06/06/2025

Students taking the PAU exams in a file image.

Selectividad 2025: Complete guide to the University Entrance Exams (PAU) in Catalonia

Society | 06/06/2025

Students during a university entrance exam yesterday in Barcelona

The Government rectifies: spelling mistakes in the university entrance exams will also be deducted from exams that are not language-related.

Society | 05/06/2025

Students taking the selectivity exam

A twist in the week leading up to the university entrance exams: spelling mistakes will remain only in language and literature.

Society | 05/06/2025

Students taking the university entrance exam at the UB, in a file image.

"Not everyone should be able to live in Plaza Catalunya."

Society | 04/06/2025

Housing: Technically feasible solutions. Is it time to build new cities from scratch?

Catalan universities lead the state in science and technology studies.

Society | 02/06/2025

University students in the UAB library

Private vocational training has overtaken state-funded vocational training: it has twice as many students as it did five years ago.

Society | 02/06/2025

A workshop at a vocational training school.

"We're not fooling ourselves; the water is cold": first day of packed beaches

Society | 31/05/2025

Hundreds of people fill Barcelona's beach to take advantage of the sunshine and high temperatures on a radiant day.

Teachers at the school where the teacher was stabbed report receiving threats.

Society | 30/05/2025

Teachers' rally where one of them was attacked by a student

From Portbou to Alcanar: this is the Catalan seabed

Society | 29/05/2025

The seabed of the Catalan coast

The startup that wants to cure Parkinson's with an implant: the investment magnet for the UB science park

Society | 28/05/2025

A researcher at the UB science park in a laboratory

Half of the school staff has changed in five years: "A third of the staff could leave next year."

Society | 27/05/2025

Former staff from the Salvat Papasseit Institute visit the renovated center.

The Health Department will provide €100 in aid for glasses and contact lenses for all children under 16.

Society | 26/05/2025

High abilities: debunking myths