Student Finance Wales Day is a national day dedicated to explaining the changes to student finance in Wales for 2012/13 higher education students. We have developed a toolkit to help you communicate to your audiences the changes to student finance.
This new guidance is designed to support the development of literacy and language skills by making links across English, Welsh, Welsh second language and modern foreign languages.
These bilingual resources are designed to support high-quality teaching and assessment of Welsh second language. In particular, they aim to support teachers in Year 6 who will need to assess learners’ Welsh second language attainment at the end of Key Stage 2. A copy will also be distributed to each secondary school for Key Stage 2 and 3 transition work and cluster moderation. These resources will be distributed to schools in hard copy/CD format week commencing 14 November 2011.
A new International Education Programme (IEP) which will help young people in Wales learn lessons from across the world has been announced by Education Minister Leighton Andrews. The IEP aims to spread the knowledge and skills necessary for young people in Wales to actively contribute to a global society. Further info.
The latest issue of School Catering Matters is now available. School Catering Matters details the latest news and information about Appetite for Life, the Welsh Government’s strategy for improving the food and drink served in schools in Wales. This newsletter provides advice and guidance, which will help schools and local authorities get ready for the introduction of statutory standards for food and drink in schools.
Young people across Wales are being urged to take part in a week long series of events to celebrate youth work.
An interim report for this Inquiry has now been published which contains a number of recommendations for awarding organisations. Last summer an unacceptable number of examination papers for GCSEs and A levels were found to contain errors.
Further education colleges from across Wales are expanding their links with China through a new initiative launched by the First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Wales’ ten universities have come together to offer training and expertise to the growing Chinese market in a major project launched last week.
Old Bell 3, in association with Dateb, was commissioned by the Welsh Government to undertake a formative evaluation of the Welsh for Adults (WfA) Programme. This evaluation was undertaken between September 2007 and March 2010.
Find out how young people aged 11-18 can benefit from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games! Take part in the INSPIRE > ASPIRE Values Poster Awards, an official London 2012 ‘Inspire Programme’. It will help your learners explore their character, ideals and values through a unique poster template, using supporting web-based resources.
DfES is committed to achieving excellence in the way we communicate and engage with you. As a result of the 2010 Stakeholder Survey, we have developed a very short feedback form to explore your perceptions of our strengths and weaknesses. Please take a few minutes to fill in this confidential short form.
A toolkit for consulting young people in Wales on sex and relationships education.
The resource is designed to be used as a part of a structured programme of teaching and learning, assisting students in applying knowledge to a range of travel and tourism organisations operating in different sectors of the industry.
Previous research and anecdotal evidence has suggested that offering a broader curriculum, and in particular, vocational qualifications, may be a way to motivate young people who have become disengaged from education and improve their subsequent attainment. However, this hypothesis has not been systematically evaluated.
The subjects and courses young people choose to take from age 14 onwards can have profound implications for their later-life education and economic opportunities. It is therefore vital we understand how young people make their choices, and whether any aspects of the current decision-making process may be detrimental to young people’s future welfare.
The qualifications regulators in Wales (the Welsh Government), England (Ofqual) and Northern Ireland (CCEA), commissioned Ipsos MORI to carry out an independent evaluation of the introduction of controlled assessment within GCSEs.
