Each year leaves its own sediment: stories that do not expire at the end of the last paragraph and which, as the months pass, continue to make noise in the head. In 2025, the EL PAÍS training chain will become a place where we will stop and calmly watch how education evolves, where it is empowered and from where: from classes crossed by the clay behind a dance to prisons where learning is a way of starting again; of the intact curiosity of a 91-year-old AI student in art converted into a tool for social inclusion. I have other reports that talk about learning, but also about dignity, opportunities and a shared future.
The following selection, classified chronologically – to read them, simply click on the corresponding title – is a way of returning to these reports and reading them with perspective. Here is a science without gender labels; cultural enterprise as a means of keeping music alive; The reality of oppositions that demand profound reform or of hip-hop and flamenco as languages that educate where other discourses cannot reach. I find things that do not seek to close debates, but to open them; because educating, ultimately, is essential: asking uncomfortable questions, listening to stories that do not always occupy the center of the debate, and remembering that learning – at any age and in any context – continues to be a profoundly human act.
1. Scientific vocations without distinction of gender
Faced with the decline of young people opting for scientific and technological careers, many projects are generating interest in STEM disciplines from different fields. An impact that we measure on the ground in the Spanish context, also in international cooperation, where iamtheCODE intends to train one million girls as programmers before 2030.
2. “Artccesible Advanced”, how to make art visible to those who cannot see it
The Escuela de Segunda Oportunidad Ortzadar, in San Sebastián, and the Chillida Leku Museum are developing a project to bring Chillida’s work closer to blind or visually impaired people.
3. Faced with musical precariousness, the cultural enterprise
The Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía incubator prepares musicians for entrepreneurship and promotes projects that serve to ensure the stability of the sector.
4. Normality appears in dance schools
From Infantile to Bachillerato, managing the disaster academically and emotionally has not been a simple task in the flood-affected centers.
5. Ramón, 91-year-old AI student: “The problem with learning technology is not age, it’s curiosity”
Born in Republican Barcelona, this retired engineer, traveler and curious was determined to complete a master’s degree in AI and innovation in just over three months.
6. Understanding “flow”: hip hop and flamenco as languages that educate and include
Urban culture and flamenco are opening up as educational and inclusive tools for young people at risk, students disconnected from the system or homeless people.
7. When memorizing is not enough: why it is urgent to rethink oppositions in Spain
More and more people are calling for a selection system that values practical skills and, in the field, the memorization of subjects far removed from the reality of work.
8. Learning between the walls: education in penitentiary centers as a path to social reintegration
In prison, there is no single “type of student”: the classroom is a heterogeneous mosaic that ranges from basic literacy to university, and each progress opens a path between inequalities, interruptions and urgent needs.
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