School-leaving age may rise to 18

Minister for Education wants the obligatory schooling during at the 18 years old.

The PP and representatives of various educational groups are in agreement instead of making the 'bachilerato' a three year course instead of the current two year programme.

Now one in four students do not finish the ESO to 16 years and some 30% of young people aged between 18 and 24 have no further education or training.

The Student Association, UDE, warned that if students were obliged to stay on until the age of 18 to study for the 'bachilerato' it would become simply an extension of the ESO "in terms of people dropping out and failing".

For me personally I feel bad, because the ''batxillerat'' is optional.

The Cocker spaniel club

As with any popular breed of dog, a number of hereditary conditions are occasionally seen in the Cocker Spaniel. The Cocker Spaniel Club has been monitoring the health of the breed for many years to ensure the incidence of these conditions is kept as low as possible.

PRA (Progressive Retinal Atrophy) is an inherited eye disease found in many breeds of dogs with varying ages of onset. There are various types of PRA but the one most commonly seen in Cockers is GPRA (General Progressive Retinal Atrophy) also known as prcd-PRA. This results in night blindness gradually leading to total blindness. In Cockers, PRA has a variable age of onset, from as early as 18 months to as late as 7 years. It is inherited as a simple Autosomal Recessive gene, meaning that a copy of the PRA gene must be inherited from both parents for the disease to occur.