Wert opts out of Goya awards night

The premiere of Mario Gas’s recent staging of Julius Caesar was punctuated by a chorus of catcalls for Education and Culture Minister José Ignacio Wert, and at the Forqué awards ceremony, a precursor to the Goyas, he was again roundly booed. No surprise, therefore, that the Minister has cited a ‘scheduling conflict’ as his reason for not attending tonight’s Goya …

U-turn on Erasmus grants

Education Minister José Ignacio Wert has reversed his decision to only award Erasmus grants to those students with the lowest economic means after coming under pressure from regional governments, universities, opposition parties, leaders from his own governing Popular Party and the EU.