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The Fundació Bofill has developed Vota Educació, an initiative to give the main challenges of equality a prominent position in the Catalan elections. We want and believe that these elections should be about education, and that the next legislature should be one of education.
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Early drop-out is one of the foremost challenges facing the Catalan educational system. Although the early drop-out figures have been reduced in recent decades, Catalonia still leads the countries with the most lowly qualified young people without post-compulsory education.
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The MENTORA programme strives to ensure that young people at risk of leaving school early decide to continue studying beyond the compulsory secondary school level until they graduate from post-compulsory education.
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LECXIT is a project which aims to increase children’s educational success by working to improve their reading comprehension.
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Children carry out most of their daily activities outside of school hours. Lunch time, afternoons, weekends and the summer holidays are moments when children can take part in activities that they enjoy, that motivate them, and which offer them life lessons, connecting them with other friends, other spaces and other interests.
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Within the European context, levels of school segregation in Catalonia have been very high for many years, with no signs of improvement. These high levels lead to a low overall educational attainment and a high degree of inequality. The DeSegregAction project monitors levels of school segregation and promotes actions to deploy effective desegregation measures.
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Nowadays, we notice that reduce digital divide requires much more than deploy computers and have internet acces around. These actions are required, but not enough, tackling the social, and digital, inequalities in our country.
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The Yearbook Education Challenges in Catalonia is presented as an instrument for the prioritisation and mobilisation of the political agenda. It sets out challenges and priority policies, identifies levers for change and puts forward specific transformation measures.
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Initiatives, debates and research for educational
Patrick Dolan: "It Is not that young people do not want to demonstrate empathy, it is that they do not have the opportunity to do it"
Patrick Dolan is a professor at the National University of Ireland in Galway and Chair of his university's UNESCO partnership for Childhood,…
“Strengthening youth’s democratic resilience in these times of great uncertainty is paramount.”
INTERVIEW Catesco interviews Ana Perona-Fjeldstad, Executive Director, and Khristyna Chushak, Head Programme Coordinator Ukraine of The…
More than robots
More than robotsArtificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithmic decision-making are rapidly changing the web, our culture – and h…
Meaningful and useful evidence requires not only incentives for researchers but the implication of practitioners in the production and mobilisation of knowledge
Promoting campaigns and intervention programs for schools, municipalities and charities and strengthening the different areas they manage,…
“The evaluation of educational programmes is of key importance to determine their impact and to ensure good educational practices”
INTERVIEW Research is a process of creating hypotheses and of their objective verification based on the design of an intervention and the…
“The desegregation process in the municipality of Salt: from invisibility to political inaction”
The Salt’Educa Association was founded in 2016 when people linked to the Salt-Girona Anti-racist Space, members of various family a…
“Mentoring is the best thing I have ever done”
Mentors, mentees and organisations highlight the importance of projects to support vulnerable young people with the aim of improving their…
“We invest a decade in educating children in technical skills. Social and personal skills deserve to be devoted the same amount of time”
INTERVIEW Brent Roberts is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois and an OECD expert on socioemotional skills. He is known…
The lottery of birth and equity in childhood
Ensuring that children develop all their potentialities and find contentment in all aspects of life is unquestionably one of the basic…
Climate education makes a place for itself at COP27: a cause for hope?
If being educated means living unsustainably, we need to recalibrate our notions of what education should do and what it means to be…
