{"id":119529,"date":"2025-05-19T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/moviles-centros-publicos-concertados\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:42:45","slug":"moviles-centros-publicos-concertados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/moviles-centros-publicos-concertados\/","title":{"rendered":"Education bans the use of mobile phones in public and subsidised schools from the 2025\u20132026 academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Department for Education and Universities<\/strong> of the Balearic Islands has announced a <strong>new regulation<\/strong> that <strong>bans the use of mobile phones and other personal electronic devices<\/strong> in <strong>non-university public and state-subsidised schools<\/strong>. This measure, which will <strong>come into effect<\/strong> in the <strong>2025\u20132026 academic year<\/strong>, will be published in the Butllet\u00ed Oficial de les Illes Balears (BOIB) on <strong>Tuesday, 20 May<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117069 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Adolescentes.webp\" alt=\"Teenager with mobile phone\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Order states that students will not be allowed to use mobile phones or other personal electronic devices during the <strong>entire school day<\/strong>. This ban includes <strong>lesson time, break times, extracurricular and complementary activities<\/strong>, as well as <strong>school trips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exceptions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students in <strong>secondary education and post-compulsory education<\/strong> may use these devices <strong>exclusively for educational purposes<\/strong>, when <strong>school devices are not available<\/strong>, and always under <strong>justified pedagogical criteria<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Individual exceptions<\/strong> may be granted for <strong>medical reasons<\/strong> or other <strong>specific personal circumstances<\/strong>, with <strong>prior authorisation<\/strong> from the school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Corrective measures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the case of <strong>inappropriate use<\/strong>, the school may <strong>apply corrective measures<\/strong>, such as <strong>confiscating the device<\/strong>, which must be <strong>switched off<\/strong> by the student at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Higher vocational training, special regime education and adult education<\/h2>\n<p>Schools offering <strong>higher vocational training, special regime education or adult education<\/strong> may adapt the implementation of this Order during <strong>non-teaching periods<\/strong> within the school day. Therefore, each school\u2019s <strong>rules of organisation, operation and coexistence<\/strong> must set out the <strong>conditions<\/strong> and <strong>requirements<\/strong> for student use of mobile phones and the <strong>consequences of non-compliance<\/strong> with these rules.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A measure based on experience and consensus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The new Order consolidates the guidelines applied during the 2024\u20132025 academic year in public schools\u2014which, until now, were only recommendations for state-subsidised schools\u2014and establishes a mandatory framework for all publicly funded schools, according to the regional government. The <strong>Conviv\u00e8xit<\/strong> service, under the Department for Education, <strong>has given a very positive assessment of the previous implementation<\/strong>, highlighting a <strong>significant reduction in conflicts<\/strong> related to mobile phone use in schools.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation has been widely discussed in the <strong>negotiation and dialogue committees<\/strong>, as well as in the <strong>School Council of the Balearic Islands<\/strong>. With this measure, the Department aims to strengthen <strong>school coexistence<\/strong>, ensure a <strong>more suitable learning environment<\/strong> and provide <strong>clear guidelines<\/strong> for all schools across the islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Education and Universities of the Balearic Islands <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/moviles-centros-publicos-concertados\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":117070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-and-technology","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Balearic Islands extend mobile phone ban to subsidised schools - 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