Education Minister, Leighton Andrews today welcomed the publication of guidance for schools in Wales to help them decide whether they should close during extreme weather. Press release and the guidance document
You may be eligible for an Education Maintenance Allowance, if you are aged 16, 17 or 18 years old on 31 August 2011 and are continuing to study full time or at least 12 hours per week in college.
The Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning introduced the proposed Education (Wales) Assembly Measure to Plenary on Wednesday 8 December. The proposed Measure makes provision to put in place powers and duties to make collaboration commonplace in the education system, to improve school governance and to simply the planning of school places in Wales.
Wales’ Education Minister Leighton Andrews has welcomed extra funding to ease the pressures on student finances.
This document provides information on the teacher training incentives. It outlines what funding is available, grant eligibility and how payments will be made.
The Minister has issued a Written Statement on the Review of Music Education for 3-19 year olds in Wales, which was commissioned by the Assembly Government. Through this Statement, he has approved publication of the Review report and also a "Ministerial response" which focuses on those recommendations in the report that are directed to the Assembly Government.
The Welsh Assembly Government has recently issued a consultation questionnaire for Children and Young People on "School organisation - potential change to the process". Questionnaire and consultation
The report from the cross-party group of AMs found that, while provision is broadly sufficient in Wales, pockets of poorly delivered services need to be eliminated for vulnerable young people to benefit from it as a route into employment.
Year Nine students choosing their options are being encouraged to look at modern foreign languages in a new light. NVQ Business Languages, piloted in 17 schools in Wales last year, aims to prepare pupils for successful careers.
Inspire > Aspire is an evolution of the Learning for Life programme in which many Welsh centres participated last year. Inspire > Aspire is a unique classroom-based activity for 12-18 year olds which enables young people to develop a plan of action inspired by Olympic and Paralympic values. To take part you need to complete the on-line application form by 31 January 2011. For further advice, please contact the Welsh office.
Research evidence has shown that children who are not literate by the age of 11 have only a 25% chance of improving their skills by the age 14. For those individuals it is therefore essential that we continue to raise awareness amongst parents/carers of the importance of reading beyond primary school.
This event will bring together interested partners to raise awareness of the benefits of bi-lingual/Welsh medium youth work. It is also an opportunity to explore the development of opportunities to enhance the use of the Welsh language in both formal and informal settings. To book a place, please contact Sally Jones
Highlighting common success factors across the case study examples, this report offers useful learning to partners and all organisations engaged in seeking ways to address similar issues with disadvantaged young people.
Do you ever need access to research based evidence or have difficulty in tracking down the most relevant and up to date research? If the answer is yes, then you may be interested in the Educational Evidence Portal (www.eep.ac.uk)
With 24 countries participating in the 2010 Eurydice reporting exercise on ‘New Skills for New Jobs’, the consultation provided a unique opportunity to gather information on recent national developments in skills forecasting and to assess how this information is channelled into education and training provision.
The Department for Education aims to make its statistical publications relevant and useful. This consultation allows the Department to gather users views on the annual publication Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom: (the UK volume) which is published in November each year. Survey
