The Education Minister Leighton Andrews has announced a change in the way Post-16 funding will be allocated in the coming years. Within challenging budget settlements, the Minister has opted to introduce stability within the sector by providing three year allocations for the first time in line with One Wales commitments.
The Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 secures the creation of a wide range of local curricula for 14-19 learners in Wales. In 2011 the Measure’s provisions for the first time will cover learners entering post-compulsory education. The Education (Local Curriculum for Students Aged 16 to 18 (Wales) Regulations 2011 make provision as to the choices a pupil may make; the head teacher’s or principal’s decision as to entitlement; the determination of a pupil’s relevant school or institution and the head teacher’s or principal’s decision to remove entitlement. Local Curriculum for Students Aged 16 to 18 guidance and the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009
A new strategy to tackle child poverty in Wales has been published by the Welsh Assembly Government. Press release and strategy
People involved in youth work in Wales are being encouraged to step forward and get the recognition they deserve by entering the Youth Work in Wales Excellence Awards. The awards will take place on the 17th March. Press release and enter the awards
Education Minister, Leighton Andrews has announced over £700,000 of grant funding to extend the successful Bilingual Champion Grant to four Further Education colleges.
DCELLS is evaluating current arrangements for regulating the employment of school-age children and exploring options for reform of the present procedures. We are planning to hold a series of Focus Groups to take the views of interested parties in Wales. For further information please contact Elaine Hepple
The Assembly Government has taken the opportunity this Bill presents to seek Measure powers in relation to the regulation and training of teachers and the wider education workforce in Wales and Pre 16 School Funding.
This guidance for PGCE (FE) initial teacher training providers offering full-time pre-service courses of PGCE (FE) initial teacher training leading to a qualification to teach further education in the academic year 2010/11. These include administering, assessing eligibility and the methodology for calculating grant payments.
Better understanding the relationship between schooling and social inequality has long been a concern of educational researchers. Focusing on the UK, this Insight asks what they have discovered about this relationship, and examines the outcomes of strategies developed to break the links between education and disadvantage.
This report draws on evidence from visits by Ofsted inspectors to look at geography in a sample of 91 primary and 90 secondary schools (including one special school) from 2007 to 2010.
The study compares how making pupils repeat a school year - is applied in schools across Europe and produces an inventory of the legislations and practices in place.
The research explores young people’s use of their public libraries: numbers of users, and differences according to age or background demographics; the link between public library use and young people’s reading (enjoyment of reading, attitudes towards reading and reading behaviour).
