Textbooks to be bought by schools and lent free to pupils, saving parents hundreds
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 @ 12:26 PM
SPAIN'S Parliament has voted almost unanimously in favour of school textbooks being lent free to pupils for the year and then returned to their teachers.
The motion was tabled by UPyD (Unión, Progreso y Democracia, or Union, Progress and Democracy), an independent government party, and looks set to be included in the forthcoming amendment to the education law.
Loans of textbooks free of charge will be guaranteed by legislation for as long as any pupil is in compulsory education, meaning sixth-form pupils, university students and those on professional or vocational training courses will still need to buy their own resource and exercise books.
But the move will ultimately save parents all over the country between 200 and 900 euros per child at the start of every new school year.
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