Wales’ Learning and Skills Measure has received the support of the Assembly to proceed to its final stage of approval from the Privy Council. The backing that the Measure has received from the Assembly has gone a long way in securing the future of 14-19 Learning Pathways which aims to improve educational choices, vocational and academic, for young people in Wales.
The Record of Proceedings of the debate
The purpose of the Effective Education Conference is for educational practitioners in Wales to share and celebrate their practice. Delegates will be able to access a wide range of key note presentations and workshops that will explore effective learning and teaching which will enable them to build on and develop their practice.
Higher education institutions in Wales will receive grant allocations of £433.8m in the 2009/10 academic year, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has announced.
This report is published in response to a request in the annual Ministerial remit to Estyn for 2008-2009. It evaluates the arrangements that further education institutions have made for managing the performance of their teaching staff following the establishment of the Pay Wales Agreement in 2006.
This Statistical Bulletin provides an annual statistical update on the relationship between the proportion of pupils entitled to free school meals and the performance at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The statistical models fitted are similar for each year analysed, implying that the strength of the relationship is constant over time. More
Experts in funding, skills training, tendering and innovation will be offering free advice to Welsh businesses at a new series of seminars designed to help them get through the recession and emerge in stronger and more competitive shape.
Further information about Weathering the Storm
The WLGA’s Annual Conference will bring together leading figures from UK business, government and media commentators to take-stock and consider the implications of the global recession and its impact on Wales’ wider communities. It will look at how public services and their partners are responding to the economic challenges they are facing.
This is a response by the Welsh Assembly Government to Estyn’s report on 'An Evaluation of post-18 Offender Learning in Wales'. The report provides an overall assessment of post-18 offender learning (in both prisons and through the Probation Service).
This is a response by the Welsh Assembly Government’s to Estyn’s report on 'Physical education for pupils with learning difficulties'. Estyn was asked to advise on the standards and quality of provision within schools for Physical Education (PE) for pupils who have special educational needs.
Skills Secretary John Denham pledged to help apprentices go to university, and to ensure higher education meets the needs of students who have come up through a vocational route. A report published by the Skills Commission, Progression into Apprenticeships, praises the Government's progress in expanding apprenticeships and calls for a greater proportion of apprentices progressing to higher levels of learning.
Leading HE experts Professor Roger Brown and Professor Sir Peter Scott, Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University, present two contrasting views on the role of the market in higher education. This report has been produced in partnership with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, as part of their fifth birthday celebrations.
The Talisman is a printed newspaper specifically for adult training and Further Education providers. In this issue talisman reports on the outcomes of inspection in a selection of sector subject areas. The cover story is about Identifying good practice: a survey of college provision in arts and media.
On 27 February 2009, the National Audit Office published a report (Helping government learn) which suggests that, to obtain value for money from public spending, government departments must learn lessons from the success and failure of policies and projects. More
People who want to organise their own groups and classes will be supported by a new national campaign for learning, Government has announced. Public and private buildings all over the country will throw open their doors to learners in the evening and weekends, from pubs, shops, cafes and churches to workplaces, libraries and galleries. More
A coalition of the UK's most senior business people and union leaders today took the unprecedented step of issuing a joint call to employers urging them to make investment in training during the recession a top priority.
