The Youth Engagement and Employment Action Plan outlines WAG’s approach to preventing children and young people from disengaging from learning and supporting them with entry to the labour market.
The Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning announced (on the 30 November 2010) how Wales will respond to the decision by the UK Government to increase tuition fees in higher education institutions in England. This consultation provides details of the work currently under way to implement the new higher education funding and student finance model for Wales from 2012/13 onwards.
The Education Act 1996 requires headteachers, governing bodies and local authorities to ensure pupils receive balanced views if being taught about democracy and politics. Over the coming months it is very likely there will quite a bit of political lobbying and activity taking place across Wales.
Education Minister, Leighton Andrews today announced that the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification will be rolled-out to a further 53 centres and extended in six, making it available to some 7,500 further students.
The requirements for music at Key Stages 2 and 3 are set out in ‘Music in the national curriculum for Wales’. This document contains the programmes of study for each key stage, together with attainment targets and level descriptions.
Following the successful launch of the meic advocacy service for Children and Young people in May 2010, the service is now being extended to be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
NIACE Dysgu Cymru wants to identify, and celebrate, excellent tutors and mentors from across Wales. Nominations are invited from all sectors of adult learning provision - statutory or voluntary, formal or informal, training or education and different modes of study including distance learning. The deadline for nominations is 21 January 2011.
From January 2012, the Welsh Assembly Government will start to collect information on the first language of all compulsory school aged pupils in all maintained schools through the Pupil Level Annual Schools’ Census (PLASC).
The number of HE enrolments at Welsh HEIs was 127,885, an increase of 1 per cent from 2008/09. Full-time enrolments at Welsh HEIs increased by 9 per cent and part-time enrolments decreased by 12 per cent.
Education Minister, Leighton Andrews, has visited Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Torfaen to officially open the school’s new plaza, which benefits from the world’s most cutting edge and innovative classroom technology.
995 pupils were recorded as being educated other than at school; 222 of these pupils were also on roll at a maintained school. Around three quarters of EOTAS pupils were boys.
In 2008 Ofsted published The changing landscape of languages: an evaluation of language learning 2004/2007. This report follows up achievements since then and examines the current challenges.
In this clip, Professor Steve Higgins talks about how he has used Research for Teachers with ITT students and teachers. Steve Higgins is Professor of Education at Durham University.
Professor Steve Higgins explains how schools can use technology effectively and efficiently in times of constrained budgets by using technology they already have in alternative ways.
