Today, my post deals with a new report coordinated by a very much admired Departament colleague, Elisabet Pladevall Ballester. The report is called Per què ens costa tant l’anglès?: Propostes per millorar l’aprenentatge de l’anglès a l’escola [Why is English so difficult for us?: Proposals to improve English learning at school] and has been commissioned […]
PISA, its official website informs “is the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment. PISA measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges.” Although the report for the 2022 tests shows that Spain has obtained the same results as in 2018 on the three skills tested, these […]
Queen Elizabeth II passed away last Thursday, 8 September, and in the following days we have seen a public demonstration of sorrow that gives no signs of abating. The state funeral scheduled for Monday 19 will mark a climax and put a formal end to the second Elizabethan era, though it is still to be […]