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Topical Questions
In response to a question from me last week regarding the financial crisis facing Welsh universities, you stated 'Medr is going to have its own funds to support our institutions.... It will be called a transformation fund'. But, lo and behold, within 24…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Well, thank you very much for that response. It's all a mystery, isn't it?
, Plenary
Topical Questions
2. Will the Welsh Government explain the financial support available to at-risk Welsh universities, following the letter from the Minister for Further and Higher Education to Members of the Senedd on 16 October 2024? TQ1223
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: Rail Collision on the Cambrian Line
Thank you for the statement. May I extend my sympathies and condolences to the family of the person who lost their life, and wish those who were injured in the accident well—injured either physically or mentally? And I thank, also, the emergency services for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
I'm done. Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay, I’ll ask this question in Welsh, and it’s a question specifically on the institute that’s contained within the Bill. How do you expect the role of the institute to interact and intersect with your post-16 sector? And how do you see the institute working…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay. I don’t know whether any of the others want to comment on that.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
So, in the short term—I’m just going back to the short term, and, as to your long-term ambition, you've set that out clearly—in the short term, do you still acknowledge there will be tensions, and there needs to be honesty as well about what FE can provide as…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Diolch. I'll ask my second question in Welsh; I'll ask the first one in English. It's specifically for ColegauCymru, but happy to take any comments from other institutions. For this whole Bill to work, we need clear collaboration across many different…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay. Diolch yn fawr.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay. That's quite clear.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
A final question from me in terms of seeking that clarity that Alun was alluding to: do you expect to take responsibility for regulating the institute, when that is established?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Thank you very much. We've heard evidence already this morning from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, from the centre—which could develop in time to become an institute. Are you clear about their role and their function with regard to Medr, and, perhaps, other…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Thank you very much. I'll be asking my questions in Welsh. You have referred already to the lack of clarity in the Bill, so I just want to focus on that issue, if I may. You, Medr, are of course the regulatory body responsible for funding post-16 education…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Ocê, diolch yn fawr iawn i chi. Cwestiwn olaf: ydych chi'n pryderu bod y Bil, fel mae rhai rhanddeiliaid eisoes wedi nodi, yn canolbwyntio’n ormodol ar ysgolion cyfrwng Saesneg? Y cwestiwn efallai i’r ddau sefydliad, mewn gwirionedd. Ac yn dilyn y pwynt…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
At least that.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
But do you agree in principle that every child should have the opportunity to receive that 10 per cent of Welsh-medium education in schools?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
You mentioned cohorts there. What do you mean by that, 'cohorts within schools'?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Thank you very much. A question once again, if I may, to the coleg: there has been some ambiguity in the evidence that we've received as to whether it's 10 per cent in English-medium schools across all the pupils that would be desirable, or 10 per cent for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Right. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Thank you. Also in your evidence, you express concerns that the power to make regulations around school language categories is too narrow at present, and you suggest perhaps that the Bill does not adequately reflect those language categories with regard to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Thank you very much. These are questions on behalf of Tom Giffard. We are expecting Tom to arrive at any moment; he's been held up. But a question to the coleg, if I may. Again, in your evidence, you noted concerns regarding the lack of a distinction in the…
