Wales

The latest news, analysis, investigations and professional advice covering everything to do with the education sector in Wales

Tuesday

30th Jan 2024

Wales to introduce vocational GCSEs
It is hoped the new brand of qualification – which will be called VCSEs and will replace existing vocational qualifications such as Btecs – will improve parity of esteem
Wales to introduce vocational GCSEs

Tuesday

23rd Jan 2024

Welsh heads face ‘terrible’ budget choices
Reducing staffing and learning support for pupils are among the cuts school leaders say they will have to make to fund the 2023-24 teacher pay deal, a new survey finds
Welsh heads facing ‘terrible choices’ to balance budgets

Thursday

18th Jan 2024

40% persistently absent in some Welsh secondaries
An Estyn report on the secondary school attendance crisis in Wales says the level of variation between schools is a ‘notable concern’
Empty chair

Monday

15th Jan 2024

GBV report calls for relationships education review
The inspectorate-led review should include recommendations on ‘sufficiency of resources and training’ for Welsh schools, says Senedd report into gender-based violence
relationships education review

Friday

29th Dec 2023

Ruth Miskin appointed Dame in New Year Honours
Academy trust CEOs, heads and teachers among the appointees in the King’s New Year Honours list
King's new years honours list

Tuesday

19th Dec 2023

Improving climate change teaching is a must for 2024
After COP 28, it’s clear how important lessons that engage and inspire on climate change are, says Professor Geraint Jones
Improving climate change teaching is a must for 2024

Friday

8th Dec 2023

Wales’ Pisa results have ‘an air of inevitability’
Falling maths, reading and science Pisa scores cannot be entirely blamed on Covid – so what else has been going wrong in Wales, asks Gareth Evans
Dominos falling

Wednesday

22nd Nov 2023

Jeremy Miles: ‘We will use every lever to support schools’
Challenging behaviour, worsening attendance and lower levels of literacy and numeracy must not be allowed to become ‘the new normal’, says Wales’ education minister
Jeremy Miles welsh classroom

Monday

20th Nov 2023

Wales moves to shake up school holidays calendar
A five-week summer break and a two-week October holiday are proposed, but a school leaders’ union says it is ‘bewildered’ by the plans
Shake up calendar

Tuesday

24th Oct 2023

Welsh schools told ‘make learning interesting’ to cut absence
Attendance will improve if pupils ‘actively want to come to school’, says new government guidance
Science class experiement

Thursday

28th Sep 2023

Wales to set up school attendance taskforce
Percentage of secondary pupils persistently absent in Wales trebled last year, compared with before the Covid pandemic
School attendance taskforce to be established in Wales as absence rises