Education Minister Leighton Andrews has today welcomed the robust approach taken by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) in initially rejecting all of the fee plans submitted by Wales’ Higher Education and Further Education Institutions.
Sport Wales are urging Headteachers to become involved in the School Sports Survey. In addition to helping teachers and schools evidence well-being, information from the survey is critically important to the sport sector in helping to identify strengths and gaps in provision, shape sports policy both nationally and locally, and ensure that every child becomes hooked on sport for life.
One of the elements of our communications and marketing plan to raise literacy standards of children in Wales is a cinema campaign. The advertisement is aimed at children aged 7-11 and is entitled 'Reading takes you places'.
This guidance which is updated annually, sets out the requirements for post-16 providers to submit an annual self-assessment report (SAR) and quality development plan (QDP). Self-assessment is used as the starting point for monitoring performance. This enables us to come to a view on the accuracy of providers’ own judgements, and to follow up any concerns which are identified.
St David’s Catholic College is holding a dissemination event for the areas of excellence identified in the college’s November 2010 Estyn Inspection. The college has reduced the costs of attendance to £100 (originally £130) with support from the Welsh Government’s new ‘Sharing Sector Leading Practice Fund’. The fund helps to recognise and promote the achievements of the post-16 sector in Wales and to disseminate best practice more or email Post16quality@wales.gsi.gov.uk to find out more about the fund.
The UK India Education Research Initiative phase 2 programme has been officially launched by the UK Government. All information on the four open strands is on the UKIERI 2 website. Partially funded by the Welsh Government (DfES) the initiative is of particular interest to those FEIs and HEIs who have current links and are developing relationships and projects with Indian Institutions. For more information please contact: ukieri@in.britishcouncil.org
In order to provide language teachers with more flexible access to professional development, CILT Cymru has created a menu of flexible CPD training sessions covering a variety of themes. Training can be accessed by schools or groups of schools, LEAs or consortia. For full details CILT Cymru also provides free advisory visits to schools to support all aspects of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) teaching and learning. For details, please contact Kristina Hedges, Programme Manager.
Funding is available for teachers and headteachers to undertake visits to a partner school in any country classed as long haul destination (i.e. outside Europe). The purpose of the visit should be to set up a curriculum based partnership or develop an existing link. Travel, board and lodging costs can be funded. The maximum grant per person for a visit is £1000.
Through the IPLC programme, headteachers are invited to apply to be part of the group that will form links with USA (Chicago) schools. The focus of the visit will be to establish links between PLCs in Wales and the USA to jointly focus on a specific aspect of school improvement. A delegation of Welsh headteachers will visit a cluster of similar schools in Chicago will take place in the Autumn term. More Deadline for expressions of interest: 1st July 2011
This is an introductory workshop covering the principles, educational benefits, practicalities and viability of global school partnerships. A local school with an established global school partnership will also tell you about their experience. The workshop is for school staff who are interested in establishing, or who have just initiated, a global school partnership.
The programme, funded by the Welsh Government, is in partnership with CollegesWales and gives Further Education lecturers in Wales the opportunity to experience good educational practice in different countries around the world.
This interactive whiteboard resource uses a selection of Peter Prendergast’s landscapes and figure studies as the stimulus for discussion, critical analysis and practical work.
A set of teacher notes, worksheets and student notes for those studying WJEC Drama Set Works.
This Review aims to assess how children in this country are being pressured to grow up too quickly, and sets out some of the things that businesses and their regulators, as well as Government, can do to minimise the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood.
This report provides a rich insight into the ways in which institutions and individual curriculum areas can make use of technology to respond more robustly to the demands of a changing world.
