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The Generalitat Valenciana finalizes a series of changes in the drafts of the new curricular decree for the next years of Primary and Baccalaureate education that give more value to the optional subject of Religion and banish any reference to the linguistic unity between Valencian and Catalan, accredited by the philological community. This latest decision of the Generalitat, chaired by Juanfran Pérez Llorca, of the PP, who governs with the parliamentary support of Vox, already sparked intense controversy in the educational, cultural and political sphere when it emerged a few months ago, while Carlos Mazón was still head of the…

Due to an accidental data breach in mid-February, sensitive employee data from Bankhaus Metzler was passed on unencrypted to a service provider. The institute has confirmed this. “The employee of the service provider who received the data should also receive it, but encrypted and anonymized,” said Mariella Plessen, press spokeswoman at the bank, when asked by our editorial team. “There is a confidentiality agreement with the service provider.” According to Plessen, the employee immediately deleted the data in accordance with regulations and reported the incident. The information provided was from last year and had not been forwarded or published again.…

Charo San Pedro was waiting for her son Marco when at 8:50 p.m. she saw him leaving through one of the arrival gates at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport. He is one of the Spaniards who have been evacuated from Abu Dhabi in the midst of the escalation of the war in the Middle East after the bombings launched by the United States and Israel against Iran. The citizens arrived aboard an Etihad Airways flight that had taken off at 2:32 p.m. As soon as they touched down, the passage erupted in applause. “Happy, finally home,” said Silvia Aidillo, who…

The Chancellor actually wanted to talk in Washington about tariffs, China and the Ukraine war. The US-Israeli military strike against Iran changed everything. Merz’s reaction to Trump’s criticism of some European partners is causing a stir.

Ships near the Strait of Hormuz before and after attacks began Note: Times shown are in Iran Standard Time. Some ships in the region transmit false positions and others sometimes stop broadcasting their locations, and may not be reflected in the animation. Ships with sparse location data are shown in a lighter shade. Source: Kpler and Spire. Every day, around 80 oil and gas tankers typically pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway off Iran’s southern coast that carries a fifth of the world’s oil and a significant amount of natural gas.On Monday, just two oil and gas…

This Tuesday, Queen Letizia put a face and name to the stories that, like that of Elena or her mother, Marta, are behind each of the 3.4 million patients with one of the more than 6,000 rare diseases in Spain and their families. He has also claimed the importance of diagnosis – with an average delay of six years -, research and fair access to treatment, at a time when only 6% of all rare diseases have it specifically. These have been the axes of the Queen’s intervention in the official event organized this Tuesday in the Auditorium and Congress…

California wanted to use legal rules to let students decide whether their parents found out they were trans. The Supreme Court is now stopping this practice for the time being. Governor Newson warns of “gender police.”

Lukewarm coffee, circles around the eyes and bad air in the room: When the works council and HR are negotiating company agreements, it can get late – especially when it comes to drastic issues such as workforce reductions or restructuring. This makes it all the more important to have a clear, realistic plan and to pursue it – as far as the circumstances allow. Thorough preparation is therefore the be-all and end-all. What is important for HR? Find the right addressee A central initial question that employers should ask themselves well before the actual negotiations is about the responsible works…

“They used to be able to do that” – this sentence is now used in many companies when it comes to new trainees. It’s about spelling, the rule of three, the ability to understand longer texts – and the experience that in training today you have to pick up on things that were previously taken for granted. And yes: educational studies such as Pisa or IQB have shown for years that basic skills tend to become weaker on average, while at the same time the differences in performance are increasing. There are still very high-performing young people – but there…

The Provincial Court of Madrid has forced a court in the capital to investigate Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff, for leaking data from two EL PAÍS journalists in retaliation for them working near the Madrid president’s home in the case of tax fraud affecting her partner, Alberto González Amador. The 25th Court of Instruction rejected in March of last year the complaint registered by the PSOE and this newspaper against Rodríguez, but, in an order issued on February 20, the Court ordered the reopening of the case considering that “there are reasons to initiate an investigation”…