The Deputy Minister for Skills, Jeff Cuthbert, has announced a wide ranging review of all qualifications for 14 to 19-year-olds in Wales.
This is the second of the national school banding updates, following the release of provisional secondary school banding information to schools and local authorities on Thursday 15 September. Read the October update and the revised Question and Answer sheet.
The overall intention of the Healthy Eating in Schools (Wales) Measure is to require local authorities and governing bodies to promote healthy eating and drinking by pupils in maintained schools in Wales and to provide for the regulation of food and drink provided in those schools. The Minister for Education and Skills has agreed a timetable to commence provisions in the Healthy Eating in Schools (Wales) Measure.
New online guidance to help learning providers identify and coordinate the full range of work-focused experience activities that might be provided at each curriculum phase.
The Department for Education and Skills has revised several sets of regulations that cover reporting to parents, the Common Transfer System, Governors’ Annual Reports, school prospectuses and school target setting. A concise guidance document is now available.
New online guidance that provides answers to frequently asked questions about Careers and the world of work.
This report was commissioned by the qualifications regulators to check whether the statistical processes which have been adopted for determining A level results lead to fair results across awarding bodies and across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Increasing apprenticeship opportunities for young people were among the priorities announced by the Welsh Government last week.
CILT Cymru (The National Centre for Languages) grants of up to a £1000 are now available for schools to take part in action-research work to develop literacy across languages. Funding will be available for 10 innovative schools to develop further effective practice, resources and strategies in this field.
Secondary school pupils who feel they are not being listened to, or have problems they would like to discuss, may be able to talk to a school counsellor. These videoclips give young people an idea of what school counsellors do and how they can help.
A £15m project to improve the futures of over 1,500 young people with learning disabilities across South Wales has been given an EU funding boost, Deputy Minister for European Programmes, Alun Davies AM, has announced.
The guide and good practice video clips outline how a school can develop and support effective and holistic pupil participation, with particular sections on involving young people in evaluating teaching and learning and in staff appointments.
A wealth of new materials - booklets, games, lesson plans, and video clips - are now available to show how it can change and improve children and young people's lives.
Parental engagement has a large and positive impact on children’s learning. It is therefore a priority to identify interventions that are effective in supporting parental involvement, particularly those parents who are either not significantly involved in their children’s education or who are not involved at all..
This study provides a review of evidence on role of upskilling as a lever in helping people make the transition from worklessness into sustainable jobs with progression.
This report offers an overview of the research evidence on the outcomes that extended services can produce, and on how those services can be made most effective. It has something to say to all practitioners and decision makers who are working on extended services. However, it is particularly aimed at head teachers who are developing services in and around their schools.
