, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Cabinet Secretary, how many incentive schemes have to be left unmeasured, experts ignored, recruitment targets missed and years of teaching experience lost before this Welsh Government will admit that what they've been doing for the last 25 years hasn’t been…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Well, I'm not sure if I got the simple 'yes' or 'no' answer I was looking for, but, just for the record, it’s Plaid Cymru’s view, and the unions' view, very clearly, that the current situation when it comes to teacher recruitment and retention is not…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Well, if you haven’t got the data, I can give you the data right now. According to your own statistics, almost 100,000—well, about 92,000, to be precise—of combined years of experience have left the teaching profession in Wales in the last eight years. Those…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Yes—have left the teaching profession since 2016.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Thank you very much, Llywydd. How many combined years of experience have left the teaching profession in Wales since 2016?
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Some weeks ago, I asked a written question of you on this issue, asking simply: how many professional learning opportunities have been available to staff in the education profession over the past five years? Now, I was shocked by the answer that I received…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
2. What action is Welsh Government taking to provide staff in the education sector with professional learning opportunities? OQ61609
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much. And the final question. The WESPs will set targets for different categories of schools in every county. What if schools fail to achieve those targets, or if local authorities didn’t deliver against their targets for the county-based…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you. In the current Bill, there is provision to enable primarily English-medium schools to request two periods of exemption in terms of delivering 10 per cent Welsh language education, and there is some ambiguity in terms of what is meant by Welsh…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much. Yes, there have been concerns expressed by the unions during this morning's sessions regarding the lack of a bilingual workforce, and that that can prevent the development in terms of achieving the objectives of the Bill. Do you feel that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Diolch yn fawr iawn, a bore da. Diolch yn fawr i chi am y dystiolaeth rŷch chi wedi'i chyflwyno i ni fel pwyllgor. Dwi eisiau mynd ar ôl un mater rŷch chi wedi'i grybwyll yn barod, ac yn eich tystiolaeth rŷch chi'n nodi bod gyda chi bryderon am ysgolion dwy…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Okay. And the next question. We've heard several times this morning already about the additional workload, potentially, that the implementation of this Bill would place on teachers. I just want to understand whether this is a different workload as opposed to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Thank you very much. You've mentioned several times the concerns with regard to the bilingual workforce, and that that workforce is vital to ensuring the success of the objectives of this Bill. Do you believe that sufficient emphasis is placed in the Bill as…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
By the way, I don't think there's a single area in Wales where there isn't support for using the Welsh language outside of school—through the Urdd, through the mentrau iaith and many other organisations. I'm sure that there will be colleagues representing…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
And the second question, if I may, to the NASUWT: you're concerned that English language schools are being targeted. I think that is negative terminology. I would like to turn that on its head and see this as an opportunity for English language schools to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Does anyone else have a comment on that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
It's always to do with the Welsh language. I'm intrigued to understand why that should be the case.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
If I can just come back to the point you made about a feeling of the language being imposed in schools, I never hear that argument around physical education or music, or geography.
