, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Lovely. Moving on now to some questions from Sioned Williams. Sioned.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Yes, please. That would be very helpful. Buffy, is that all of your questions?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Who is taking that question? Amanda. Wait there, you're on mute, Amanda.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Sorry; Louise, Buffy, would like to come in.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Thank you. That would be very helpful. We'll look forward to receiving that. Does anybody else want to come in on that point? No. Great. Just moving on now to questions from Buffy Williams. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Thank you. Maxine or Lynn, would you like to come in on this point? No. You're okay. Okay. Lovely. You answered that question for everybody there, Maria. My final point is around any effect that the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 may have on the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Thank you. This is to all the panel, as well: the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has set out concerns regarding information-sharing provisions within the Bill; the Minister has argued that these powers already exist. What are your views on these…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Thank you. I've got two specific questions I'd like to ask the Open University, following on from the opening question. Do the Open University have any concerns relating to the Bill itself and to what extent are you concerned the Bill may have any unintended…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Thank you. Maria.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill—evidence session 3
Welcome back to the Children, Young People, and Education Committee. We're moving on to item 5, which is our work on an evidence session on the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill. This is our third evidence session. We have a large panel this…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the next item
We'll now move on to the next item on the agenda, which is to move into private session. So, I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the next item. Are Members content? I can see that all Members…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you. And that's the end of our session. Thank you both very much for joining us today. It was a very interesting session. If there are any further questions we have as a committee, we will write to you. But there’s certainly much for the committee to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you, David, and thank you, Buffy. Moving on to some questions now finally from Ken Skates. Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Yes, David.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you. We'll now move on to questions from Buffy Williams. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you, James. Moving on to some questions now from Siân Gwenllian.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Philip.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you. We've got James Evans now, who has some important questions around communication and public confidence. James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you; thank you for that. Just to clarify, how will you balance fairness to the cohorts of learners who've undertaken those qualifications pre pandemic, during the pandemic and post pandemic?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Philip.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Thank you. Thank you for that answer, Philip. Siân Gwenllian.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Diolch yn fawr. You mentioned one lesson perhaps that could be learnt. Are there any other lessons that you could learn and particularly in the way that it will form any contingency planning for anything that happens in 2022 perhaps if exams don't take place?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
Of course.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2020-2021
So, as we move on to the first item on our agenda—it's the scrutiny of Qualifications Wales's annual report 2020-21—I'd like to welcome David Jones, chair of Qualifications Wales, and Philip Blaker, chief executive of Qualifications Wales. Welcome, both. It's…
