24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Chair, I can offer some answers to the last points that Vaughan raised. When it comes to the interface and the interplay between the CEFR levels, other descriptors that are used in the curriculum space, qualifications and how those—. I'm probably going to ask…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Yes. Well, I agree. I've met them too, and I agree. It's a point of view that I, myself, completely reject.
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
In 2021, then these pre-A1 descriptors were added, but they weren't added into the global scale. They were made available, but the scale itself remains that simple A1, B1, C1, and that's what we've reflected in the documentation. But the code will provide…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, I thank Vaughan for that question, Chair. I want to repeat what I said in front of the committee last time: in my view, there are not very many people in Wales who do not speak some Welsh, and I'm very much opposed to the point of view that there are…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Dwi'n cytuno, y cyfrifoldeb mwyaf yw’r cyfrifoldeb ar y Llywodraeth i wneud hynny. Ar ôl hynny, mae nifer o unigolion ac asiantaethau ble gallwn ni ofyn iddyn nhw i'n helpu ni i wneud hynny: comisiynydd yr iaith, siŵr o fod, bydd hi eisiau arwain; yr athrofa…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Wel, dwi’n meddwl bod gwaith pwysig i'w wneud os bydd y Bil yn cael ei basio, so dyna'r peth cyntaf. Mae'r Bil yn dal i fod o flaen y Senedd, so bydd yn rhaid i ni gael y Bil trwy'r broses. Os ydyn ni’n llwyddo i wneud hynny, bydd gwaith i'w wneud gan y…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Wel, un o'r pethau sy’n bwysig yn y Bil, wrth gwrs, yw'r CEFR, ac yn y dyfodol—nid nawr, ond yn y dyfodol—pan fydd pobl yn fwy cyfarwydd â hwnna, dwi'n meddwl mai un o'r pethau sy’n mynd i fod yn bwysig yn y Bil yw y bydd pobl yn gallu dweud nid jest 'Dwi…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Mae’n mynd i fod yn ganolog, fel y mae wedi bod, am y rhesymau mae Cymdeithas yr Iaith yn cyfeirio atynt.
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Wel, y bwriad, Cadeirydd, yn y dyfodol yw dechrau gyda'r cyfrifiad. Hwnna sydd wedi bod yn ganolog i sut rydyn ni'n rhifo faint o bobl yng Nghymru sy'n dweud eu bod nhw'n gallu siarad Cymraeg, ond allwn ni ddim dibynnu ar y cyfrifiad at y dyfodol. Y…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Dwi'n hapus i ystyried hynny. Dwi'n cofio'r drafodaeth. Dŷn ni ddim eisiau dweud, os byddwn ni'n cyrraedd y filiwn, ein bod ni'n mynd i stopio a bydd neb arall yn gallu dysgu Cymraeg yma yng Nghymru, so dwi'n hapus i ystyried yr awgrym.
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
The sabbatical scheme has £3.8 million spent on it annually. The commitment in the Bill is that that level of funding continues, because the Bill is predicated on those funding streams that are currently in place being there over the 10-year haul. If there…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, Chair, my view is that all of the things that the Bill mobilises around scenario 2 will make that scenario the most likely outcome. We will strengthen the explanatory memorandum when it's re-laid at the end of Stage 2, partly as a result of the ongoing…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Two very quick points on top. So, the sabbatical scheme will continue and it's been a success. The athrofa will be there to provide a new focus on equipping the workforce. Two other points on it briefly, Chair. One is, and it's a point I've heard Alun Davies…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
So—
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, thanks to Vaughan for that. So, there are three scenarios in the Bill, and we don’t cost scenario 1 because that is business as usual, and we don’t believe that just carrying on as we are will get us to where we need to be. Scenario 2 is what the Bill…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Bore da.
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, Chair, a whole series of schemes exist already to do exactly that. They're the responsibility of my colleague the education Secretary, but include the cynllun pontio; the Welsh-medium workforce capacity development grant, which is there now and will…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, the best evidence we have is from the consultation that was carried out around the non-statutory targets in 2021. This is not the first time the 10 per cent target has been rehearsed with the education world and the education profession, because the…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, look, it is certainly a stretch target, isn't it, but it has to be a stretch target because, just to stand back for one moment, what is the recent history of Welsh education? Welsh-medium education is a huge success story, and this Bill is absolutely…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, I think you make a very sensible point. I don't think the point itself is disputable. But, just to be clear about what the Bill actually says: in 2033, what we're expecting is that children who are in primarily English-medium education will have reached…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, Chair, as I just said to Cefin Campbell, I'm not yet convinced that statutory targets on the face of the Bill are the right way to address this, and that's partly because—. We've talked so far about the workforce as though it was a single entity whereas…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Wel, jest i fod yn glir, Cadeirydd, dwi ddim wedi dweud dwi'n derbyn y ddadl am dargedau eto. Dwi, fel dywedais i, yn agored i weld sut y gallwn ni gryfhau beth sydd yn y Bil yn barod am gryfhau'r gweithlu am y dyfodol. Dwi ddim eisiau dadlau yn erbyn hynny…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, Chair, workforce obligations run all the way through the Bill. There are obligations on Welsh Ministers in producing the national framework, of various sorts, to include workforce considerations there. The WESPs will have obligations inside them to deal…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Well, thank you, Chair. My starting point is to recognise that the single biggest change that the Bill will mobilise to meet its objectives is what will be needed in the workforce, so that is shared ground. The reason why the education workforce assessment…
24 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 16
Diolch yn fawr, Gadeirydd. I've been following the evidence that the committee has taken, and I recognise straight away that there is a spectrum of views. At the one end of the spectrum, there are organisations, such as Cymdeithas, that argue that the Bill is…
