https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed When Gabrielle Vega took the brave step to go public about being drugged and raped by a Spanish tour guide while she was on a gap year in Salamanca, the last thing she expected was to discover that dozens of other women had also suffered the same thing. https://www.thelocal.es/20180423/metoo-dozens-come-forward-with-stories-of-sexual-assault-by-spanish-tour-guide Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:45:40 +0200 metoo-dozens-come-forward-with-stories-of-sexual-assault-by-spanish-tour-guide He is 80 years old, has suffered a heart attack and quadruple bypass, but on Monday this Spanish grandfather will head off to start a new semester as an Erasmus student in Italy. https://www.thelocal.es/20180214/grandfather-80-becomes-spains-oldest-erasmus-student Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:53:49 +0100 grandfather-80-becomes-spains-oldest-erasmus-student Spain's National Police have arrested a Madrid teacher, accused of hate crime and crimes against moral integrity after she reportedly called her students "drug addicts" and insulted a Latin American student. https://www.thelocal.es/20170622/madrid-teacher-arrested-over-verbal-abuse-and-calling-students-drug-addicts Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:19:04 +0200 madrid-teacher-arrested-over-verbal-abuse-and-calling-students-drug-addicts A Spanish Catholic teacher who admitted to molesting nine young children won't set foot in jail because of a legal loophole. https://www.thelocal.es/20160420/catholic-teacher-admits-to-abusing-9-kids-wont-set-foot-in-jail Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:10:56 +0200 catholic-teacher-admits-to-abusing-9-kids-wont-set-foot-in-jail Nearly 100 percent of Spanish primary school students are studying English, ranking Spain among the top European Union countries for multilingual learning. https://www.thelocal.es/20150924/spanish-primary-schoolers-rank-among-top-in-eu-for-learning-english Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:16:19 +0200 spanish-primary-schoolers-rank-among-top-in-eu-for-learning-english Spain's Pompeu Fabra has been named on a list of the seven "fastest rising young universities in the world" by UK-based Times Higher Education. https://www.thelocal.es/20150327/pompeu-fabra-named-young-gun-university Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:42:12 +0100 pompeu-fabra-named-young-gun-university A left-wing youth collective has occupied a library in Catalonia demanding that the opening hours be lengthened to include Monday mornings and lunchtimes. https://www.thelocal.es/20150121/library-takeover-students-demand-longer-opening-hours Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:22:00 +0100 library-takeover-students-demand-longer-opening-hours A new survey of financial literacy shows one in six Spanish teens have only the most basic level of understanding when it comes to money matters. https://www.thelocal.es/20140709/financial-literacy-one-in-six-students-cannot-read-a-bill Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:53:00 +0200 financial-literacy-one-in-six-students-cannot-read-a-bill Protesters burned bins at a top Spanish university campus on Thursday and hundreds marched through the streets in a national strike against education cuts that has seen scores of arrests. https://www.thelocal.es/20140327/student Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:22:00 +0100 student Thousands of students and teachers marched in Madrid on Thursday protesting against budget cuts and layoffs in schools and universities. https://www.thelocal.es/20130315/students-take-to-streets-over-funding-cuts Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:18:04 +0100 students-take-to-streets-over-funding-cuts