The first ever national Welsh-medium Education Strategy was launched for consultation by the Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills, Jane Hutt (Wednesday 13 May 2009). The strategy meets the Assembly Government’s One Wales commitment to: “create a national Welsh-medium education strategy to develop effective provision from nursery through to further and higher education, backed by an implementation programme.
The termly notification newsletter is designed to keep schools and their governing bodies fully informed of forthcoming consultations and documents sent to schools. This will help schools to forward plan and manage their workload.
These documents provide general information on pandemic flu, advise on contingency planning that should be undertaken immediately and on action to take immediately before and during the event of pandemic. The documents will be progressively updated and supplemented as further information and advice becomes available.
Two regional conferences are to be held in June to update centres on the new Principal Learning and Project qualifications available within the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification. These will take place on 10th June 2009 at Venue Cymru, Llandudno and 15th June 2009 at The Marriott Hotel, Cardiff.
These resources aim to support the development of literacy skills in those learners in Key Stages 3 or 4. This publication is focussed primarily on English/Welsh as a curriculum subject. However, the key messages are also relevant to other subject areas in order to strengthen able learners’ reading and writing, and overall success in their learning and academic achievements.
The Welsh Assembly Government launched ‘Behaving and Attending’ on March 30th 2009. The Action Plan is in two parts: a published summary document and a detailed plan responding to each recommendation.
As part of the UK Government’s Real Help Now agenda to provide support for individuals, families and business during the economic downturn, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) are looking to make Career Development Loans more attractive for learners seeking to enhance their skills for work, and particularly those recently made redundant and looking to retrain or start a career in an emerging industry or profession.
There were 125,540 HE Student enrolments at Welsh HEIs, 2.1 per cent lower than 2006/07. 38 per cent of enrolments were part-time. There were 101,965 Welsh domiciled HE student enrolments at UK HEIs, 3 per cent lower than 2006/07. 44 per cent of enrolments were part-time.
This document provides guidance on good practice in delivering non-formal learning aimed at young people aged 16–18 who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
This report follows two previous surveys of the academic experience of students in English universities, in 2006 and 2007. Those reports covered a wide range of issues, including the amount of contact students had with their staff, the amount of private study they undertook, the number of other students in their lectures and seminars and the extent of their use of facilities, as well as more qualitative issues like their satisfaction with the value for money of what they received.
The commitment by government to significantly expand the apprenticeship programme was expressed in the strategy World-class apprenticeships, published by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) in January 2008. However, one of the unknowns in the process of expanding apprenticeships is how the intermediaries and the providers of apprenticeship training operate as a sector, and what their capacity is to deliver the expansion of the programme. This research develops a core set of base intelligence on the supply chain, and sets out the level and direction of ambition of apprenticeship providers.
More than 100 employers were today encouraged to make the most of the talent and skills graduates can offer their businesses by signing up to a new Government internship matching service. Universities Secretary John Denham met with major employers at a specially organised conference to discuss the benefits graduate internships can bring to businesses and how they can gain access to intelligent and ambitious individuals this summer through the Graduate Talent Pool.
