40 schools and colleges across Wales are to benefit nearly £109 million of capital investment from the Welsh Assembly Government over the next three years, Education Minister Jane Hutt has announced.
This guidance document provides clarification on the intended scope of The Collaboration Arrangements (Maintained Schools and Further Education Bodies) (Wales) Regulations 2008 under section 166 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
Summary of the responses to the draft regulations
This document consults on a draft strategy for the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages. In The Learning Country: Vision into Action a commitment was given to refresh Languages Count, the Welsh Assembly Government’s modern foreign languages strategy in the light of recent developments.
Education Minister Jane Hutt has announced the grants available to support employment-based routes into teaching in 2009-10. Jane Hutt said: The Graduate Teacher Programme provides an additional route into teaching for a wide variety of people to help support recruitment in specific areas, particularly in priority subjects in secondary schools.
The key points from the latest release are: Girls continued to perform better than boys at each Key Stage, with the widest gap at Key Stage 3, and the narrowest gap at Key Stage 4. The gender gap was smaller in Mathematics and Science than in English and Welsh First Language in Key Stages 1 to 3.
The number of first year enrolments on ITT courses (2,100) was 4 per cent lower than the previous year and 12 per cent lower than five years ago. 76 per cent of first year students on ITT courses in Wales were Welsh domiciled.
In 2008 over 3,500 people entered a WorldSkills UK competition. This year be one of them!
NIACE Dysgu Cymru has undertaken a project on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government with the aim of highlighting success factors for engaging individuals who experience multiple barriers. As part of the project, NIACE Dysgu Cymru will be facilitating a conference.
This one-day conference is being held to launch a DVD that presents the findings of the project Bilingual Literacies for Learning in Further Education. The conference will also be an opportunity to discuss bilingual education in Wales.
Employers are being urged to invest in training to help survive the recession in a new campaign co-ordinated by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. In an open letter to be published in the national press this week the UK's skills ministers will launch the new 'Now is the Time' National Training Award developed by UK Skills.
Educational standards have been transformed in England over the past decade, and backed by sustained investment, schools have achieved large rises in the attainment of their pupils.
This paper summarises research and statistical evidence on the subject of deprivation and education for pupils in Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4 in England, in maintained mainstream schools.
The CBI Director-General, Richard Lambert, said today that it is even more important during the recession that students gain vital employability skills and experience of the workplace while at university, so they are better equipped to compete in the increasingly tough jobs market after graduation.
Record numbers of young people are achieving qualifications which will help them excel in the world of work and further study, figures released by the Department for Children, Schools and Families reveal. Overall figures show the country has a higher proportion of qualified 19 year-olds that ever before. More
A record number of adults gained vocational qualifications in the past academic year, according to National Statistics published today. The qualifications cover a range of skills and training giving people what they need to get work and get on at work, improving their chances of being employed. 320,600 adults achieved a full level 2 qualification (equivalent to five good GCSEs) in 2007/08. This is an increase of 36.5 per cent from 2006/07.
The focus of this e-bulletin from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills is on employment and skills issues from research and policy perspectives.
This report presents the findings from a survey of college provision in hospitality and catering and identifies the factors that enable students to produce high-quality work and make good progress.
This report presents the findings from a survey of college provision in hairdressing and beauty therapy and identifies the factors that enable students to produce high-quality work and make good progress.
