This document provides information on the teacher training incentives. It outlines what funding is available, grant eligibility and how payments will be made.
The General Teaching Council for Wales (GTCW) has released figures which highlight the factors affecting the time taken by newly qualified teachers (NQTs) to complete the statutory Induction period. The figures show that the time taken to complete Induction varies widely depending on whether they are a primary or secondary teacher, their subject and their qualifications.
Estyn has published a report calling for local authorities and their partners to make better use of data to focus support and education services to those learners in greatest need.
Deputy Minister for Skills John Griffiths said there would be changes to how the Deprived Area Fund will be implemented in Wales from April 2009. The fund was set up by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle unemployment and economic inactivity in the disadvantaged areas within the UK.
This is a response to Estyn’s report on Local Authority placements of pupils with additional learning needs. Estyn reported on the way local authorities plan and monitor the quality of provision for pupils with complex special needs placed in independent residential special schools.
6.7 per cent of half-day sessions were missed through authorised and unauthorised absence, a decrease from 6.9 per cent in 2006/07. 0.9 per cent of half-day sessions were missed through unauthorised absence, the same as in 2006/07.
Ministers have thrown their weight behind apprenticeships setting out how more than 21,000 apprenticeship places in frontline public services will be delivered - as the Cabinet meets in Southampton.
The way funding for UK based research is organised should change to make sure the UK can attract global companies to invest in its world class researchers and create jobs both during and after the economic downturn, Secretary of State John Denham has said.
Young People will be encouraged to become leaders as the new National Body of Youth Leadership (NBYL) gets underway. Beverley Hughes Minister for Children and Young People unveiled the seven successful organisations awarded the contract to make up the NBYL.
This report has findings from a survey of college provision in arts and media; it identifies the factors that enable students to produce high-quality work and make good progress. The sample covered work in the visual arts, performing arts, music and media.
