Bachibac changes diploma details, the external test and teachers’ language requirement

Editorial recommendation

What to do

List the staff teaching non-language subjects in French and their evidence of proficiency; review the specialisms that will appear on diplomas; and await regional rules or instructions on accepted B2 evidence and data returns, without presenting a rule that commences on 10 November as already binding.

Verified facts

Publication, commencement and scope

Ministerial Order EFD/1098/2026 was published on 21 October 2026 and enters into force on 10 November. It amends Order EDU/2157/2010 and is therefore a published national instrument that is not yet in force at the date of this analysis.

Its scope is Spanish public and private schools formally admitted to the dual Bachiller–Baccalauréat programme. It does not by itself cover every bilingual, French or international school.

Full text of Ministerial Order EFD/1098/2026 (Spanish)

Verified facts

Four concrete changes

• The external test covers the second-year subjects specific to the mixed curriculum.
• Its overall grade is the arithmetic mean of those tests, on a 0–10 scale with two decimal places and an express rounding rule.
• The diploma will record two French “enseignements de spécialité” under the new table matching Spanish subjects to French specialisms.
• Education authorities must regulate additional training requirements for staff teaching non-language subjects in French and include at least B2 proficiency.

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Schools, data and timetable

Education authorities must tell the Ministry before each school year which schools join, remain in or leave the programme and, by 31 October each year, provide the requested data on learners, schools and subjects.

That formal duty falls on the authorities. Because the order commences on 10 November, 31 October 2026 should not be presented as a new deadline created by this amendment; schools should follow current regional instructions and prepare for the next annual cycle.

Editorial analysis

Practical consequences for leadership

The first decision concerns staffing and compliance: check B2 evidence without assuming which certificates or processes each authority will accept. The second is academic: align curriculum planning, assessment and diploma information with the new correspondence table.

The legal fact must remain separate from editorial interpretation. The order standardises elements previously handled in annual instructions; it neither creates a new Bachibac programme nor automatically authorises a school to join it.