"That up to 21 years of educational trajectory are registered in a single application." This is one of the objectives sought by one of the Government's star tools for this legislature: the La Meva Educació application. The new app, which the Department of Education will launch at the beginning of summer 2027, has the same philosophy as the La Meva Salut app and will serve students, families, and teachers.

Next year, the principals of public schools and institutes in Catalonia will be able to use an important tool more frequently to adapt their teaching staff to each school's educational project: conducting interviews to select some of the teachers on the staff. However, most positions will continue to be filled based on the order in which teachers appear on the waiting list.

A new twist in the odyssey to protect and promote Catalan in classrooms. For the past three days, the Catalan government has had a new tool at its disposal to at least improve teachers' Catalan proficiency. The tool in question is one of the articles of the language regime decree approved in 2024which states that "from the 2025-2026 academic year" having a C2 level of Catalan will be a "requirement" for access to teaching.

A close but decisive decision by the deans of Education from universities across the country: this Tuesday they agreed to ask the Ministry of Education to lengthen and make the teaching degree program more challenging. Over the past two days, more than sixty professionals from the Conference of Deans of Education met to discuss and approve the white papers on education degrees—that is, the guidelines that should define the curricula for undergraduate and master's degrees in this field. Finally, the deans approved significant changes to the primary education degree and the master's degree for secondary school teachers. Regarding the primary education degree, the deans agreed to request that the teaching degree program be extended to five years; a measure that, according to EFE, received 20 votes in favor, 16 against, and 11 abstentions. Thus, the group has decided they want a four-year qualifying degree, as is currently the case, but also a master's degree that qualifies students to pursue specific specializations, which until now have depended on the chosen specializations within the degree. They also request that these specializations be defined jointly by the Ministry of Education, the regional governments, and the universities. "All students could enter the teaching profession after completing their degree, with the possibility of later choosing a specialization that would broaden their professional opportunities, both in accessing the civil service and in other specific educational roles," states the document to which EFE has had access. Regarding the university degree itself, the deans request that an entrance exam be administered to prospective students, as is already done in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. the PAP (the personal aptitude tests that grant access to teaching degrees)In this regard, prospective students might have to take reading comprehension and logical-mathematical reasoning tests, or an assessment of non-academic attributes, with multiple interviews or situational judgment tests (where a candidate is presented with hypothetical work scenarios and must choose the best response). This possibility is considered "unlikely" by Enric Prats, PhD in Pedagogy from the Faculty of Education at the University of Barcelona (UB), who has attended some of the previous meetings of the deans of education. "They are using the Balearic Islands model, which is more comprehensive than the others. In the PAP (Professional Aptitude Tests), they administer more tests and even ask candidates to submit a video," he explains. Prats insists that the Balearic model works very well, but that "it can only be done this way because they have few candidates." "In Catalonia, with 5,000 candidates each year, it would be impossible, and it would also be difficult to extend the model to the rest of Spain," he says.

One of the outstanding issues facing the Catalan education system is the shortage of teachers in certain disciplines in Catalonia's secondary schools. To address this, the decision was made six years ago. allowing one to enter to teach in a high school even if one did not have the teaching master's degree that qualifies one to practice. Of course, with the commitment to remove it. This measure allowed the pool of temporary teachers to be swelled, but all this has resulted in teachers now having been teaching for years without having obtained a master's degree. Last year, the previous Government closed the tap on this practice and established that, in order to continue in the teacher pool, After three years you had to be enrolled in the master's degreeThis has led to the demand for the enabling master's degree, that was already high, has grown even further.

A significant change in the management of teacher grants in Catalonia. As ARA has learned and the Department of Education has confirmed, the Catalan government announced this Thursday its intention to introduce the new teaching grants for the next academic year. the Stable Substitution Group (GES) does not work, only one year after its creationThe measure was announced exactly a year ago, still under the previous government led by Pere Aragonès, and sought to address the problems the Catalan education system is having in covering teacher substitutions in schools and high schools.