Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
Seven teachers at Bayside, Westside and St Bernard's Upper Primary schools have now been accredited as Climate Change teachers. The course includes topics such as climate change science, gender and the environment, children and climate change,
Education
JUAN SOTO
Teachers will have to make sure that children from one class do not mix with another when schools start to go back in Andalucía from 10 September. All schools controlled by the Andalusian Education authority will have a designated Covid-19 ... coordinator overseeing measures and alerting of possible cases. However the headteachers' association has said it is worried that too much responsibility for overseeing rules is being given to teachers. In the new guidelines from the regional government, ... impossible to do so. Teachers will also be asked to take more subjects with the same group to avoid too many changeovers. If positive coronavirus cases are found, the education authority can lock down one or more classes, with lessons carrying on remotely
Travel
Andrew Forbes
Wellbeing travel looks set to become more popular than ever; and you don't need to go far for a relaxing, nurturing, and even enlightening break as Andalucía is home to a wealth of retreat centres, wellness hotels and yoga teachers. Retreats ... magnificent sea views across to Gibraltar and North Africa. Dining is healthy and calorie-controlled, yet truly gourmet. The Ekilum Spa is a luxurious sanctuary. Yoga teachers Rafael Ruiz. Rafael Ruiz Rodríguez (Malaga) Qualified yoga teacher and
LifeStyle
RAQUEL MERINO
...will have the flu jab first, and this year teachers will also be included and will be among those who receive the first doses. This fear of flu and the new coronavirus existing at the same time, and that of health centres becoming overwhelmed, has
Opinion
Héctor Barbotta
Prefabricated classrooms have not been installed, nor have more spaces (where they exist) been made available to give students and teachers more space. More teachers haven't been hired either to have more classes taking place simultaneously, and ... classrooms and teachers as they had on 14 March, when the schools were closed and everyone was sent home. Six months have passed and the children will return to the same place they left. Not even with a few simple partitions between chairs. This is even more ... Everything will again depend on the goodwill of the teachers, those who have it, and the efforts of the families. They have had six months to organise getting everyone back in the classroom. They have done nothing.
Education
Rachel Haynes
...competition organised every year for this Education and Learning supplement is so gratifying. The students whose work is selected to be sent in to us by their teachers, and presumably many others who had to be rejected, due to our only-three rule, all managed ... to fill their pages and canvases with something that has the potential of being enjoyed, not just by their parents and teachers, but also by the thousands of readers of SUR in English. This year, more precise guidelines were introduced: the poems
LifeStyle
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Ten students, some with functional diversity, and three teachers from Huelin secondary school in Malaga recently visited Wales for the first leg of an EU-funded Erasmus+ project: One Class-Total Inclusion. Five days of activities were shared with
Local
Jennie Rhodes
Public and private education centres across the province have all had to adapt almost overnight to the coronavirus emergency. There are 338,765 pupils in public primary and secondary education across the province, along with 22,575 teachers; they ... teach and learn at 1,213 public and subsidised schools. Add to that more than 35,000 students at the university or Malaga, as well as thousands more pupils and teachers in private schools and colleges. Thousands of exams cancelled for the ... foreseeable future Across the sector, teachers and other education professionals have adopted methods and learned how to use online technologies to continue to teach their students. Schools are using online platforms such as Google Classrooms to upload
Local
Jennie Rhodes
...affected, from Selectividad, the university entrance exam which is normally taken in June, to public 'oposiciones' exams for civil servants including teachers, which this year were due to be sat for secondary schools (they alternate between primary and
Local
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...everyone is going to;the teachers, cleaning staff, caretakers, Local Police, Civil Protection. But more ought to have been done to half class sizes and lower the ratio, contracting more teachers.” At Xarblanca school in Marbella, parents expressed concern ... that social distancing was going to be very difficult inside schools and that teachers had had PCR tests while “none” of the assistants had. There was also a protest at Ramón Lago school in Cancelada, Estepona. Of the PCR tests carried out in