A £17 million initiative to help graduates get the best start to their career has been given the go-ahead for Convergence funding Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills announced.
The official London 2012 education programme, Get Set, is up and running. Driven by an interactive website featuring a whole host of flexible resources for 3-19 year olds, Get Set will give children and young people across the UK the chance to learn about the Olympic and Paralympic Values and play their part in the 2012 Games.
Adult Learners’ Week is the UK’s largest festival and celebration of adult learning, co-ordinated by NIACE Dysgu Cymru and core-funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, and the European Social Fund. Adult Learners’ Week is a campaign which combines national promotion with local action.
Deputy Minister for Skills John Griffiths and Education Minister Jane Hutt met with engineering apprentices at Airbus in Broughton to highlight the opportunities that exist for young people in accessing apprenticeships despite the tough economic situation.
Pupils with special educational needs generally make good progress in physical education (PE), Estyn has found. In their survey of primary and secondary schools, inspectors found that standards in PE for many pupils with special educational needs (SEN) are good or very good.
Deputy Minister for Skills John Griffiths visited one of the first companies who could benefit from the Welsh Assembly Government’s pioneering ProAct scheme. FSG Tool and Die Ltd in Llantrisant is a market leader in precision tooling for several sectors including automotive, metal packaging, foil packaging and plastic packaging.
On 16 January 2009, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) published a report (Improving Scottish education 2005-2008) which reviews the provision of education in Scotland across most sectors over the last three years.
Publicly-funded education and training must help recession-proof learners by making them more employable, according to a report published by the government's skills policy watchdog, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
This edition include news on the Train to Teach events and more information about professional development for those delivering the new diplomas.
Academic experts set out the proposed content for the new Diplomas, which will combine academic rigour with practical learning in humanities, science and languages. The draft content for the ‘Phase 4’ Diplomas, published for consultation, has been led by Diploma Development Partnerships.
