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Group 9: Welsh Medium (Amendments 8, 55, 9, 10)
Yes, please, Chair.
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Group 9: Welsh Medium (Amendments 8, 55, 9, 10)
Thank you, Chair. Well, I'm just happy to confirm the final point that Sioned Williams raised in her contribution just now: a number of us were in the celebration yesterday, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, and it was an…
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Group 9: Welsh Medium (Amendments 8, 55, 9, 10)
Thank you, Chair. The amendments in this group respond to recommendations made by this committee and reflect the Welsh Government's ambition, and my own ambition, in relation to increasing the use of Welsh and the number of Welsh speakers. All the amendments…
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Group 8: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education and Adult Community Learning (Amendments 54, 126, 127, 128)
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I cannot, I'm afraid, agree amendment 54, which, as Laura Anne Jones has said, has the effect of adding apprenticeships, traineeship programmes and employability programmes to the definition of tertiary education for the purpose of the…
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Group 7: Learner Voice, Well-being and Protection (Amendments 52, 53, 5, 6, 129, 130, 131, 132)
Thank you, Chair. Learners are at the heart of the reforms that this Bill is delivering, and I'd like to thank Laura Anne Jones for tabling amendments 52 and 129. They highlight a matter that is personally important to me. I know it is, obviously, to her as…
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Group 6: Additional Learning Needs (Amendment 51)
I agree with the need, Chair, to ensure absolutely clarity on the commission’s role in encouraging increased participation in tertiary education for all learners, including those with additional learning needs. The 2018 Act, which is underpinned by a number…
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Group 6: Additional Learning Needs (Amendment 51)
Thank you, Chair. I understand the intention behind some aspects of amendment 51, but as it's currently drafted, I cannot support the amendment.
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Group 5: Equality of Opportunity (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 90, 92, 101, 107, 115, 119)
Yes, please.
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Group 5: Equality of Opportunity (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 90, 92, 101, 107, 115, 119)
Chair, I agree with many of the points that Laura Anne Jones has made in support of the amendment that she is proposing. The amendments to which I was referring in my opening remarks are ones that haven't yet been tabled, because they're being developed for…
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Group 5: Equality of Opportunity (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 90, 92, 101, 107, 115, 119)
Thank you, Chair. Amendments 1, 2 and 3 amend the existing strategic duty for equality of opportunity so as to require the commission to encourage increased participation in the carrying out of research and innovation in Wales by under-represented groups…
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Group 4: Research and Innovation (Amendments 45, 4, 7, 13, 34, 120, 35)
Yes, I do. Thank you.
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Group 4: Research and Innovation (Amendments 45, 4, 7, 13, 34, 120, 35)
Thank you, Chair. To respond on the principal point that Laura Anne Jones made in her remarks, I would just say that the principle that is reflected in section 103(4) in the Bill is a well-established principle that a number of stakeholders have been keen to…
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Group 4: Research and Innovation (Amendments 45, 4, 7, 13, 34, 120, 35)
As I stated when giving evidence to the committee earlier this year, the prominence of research and innovation could be further strengthened on the face of the Bill, and amendment 7 in this group is intended to deliver this change. The Bill as introduced…
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Group 4: Research and Innovation (Amendments 45, 4, 7, 13, 34, 120, 35)
Thank you, Chair. This group of amendments relates to research and innovation and the role of the commission in their promotion.
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Group 3: Trade Unions (Amendments 44, 14, 42)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I'll start if I may with amendment 14, which responds to a recommendation of this committee and inserts a new strategic duty, requiring the commission to promote collaboration between tertiary education providers and relevant trade unions…
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Group 2: Establishment of the Commission and Appointment and Terms of its Members (Amendments 152, 153, 154, 155, 43, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 199, 176, 177, 178, 200, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 150)
Diolch, Gadeirydd. In relation to amendment 150, I'm afraid that I can't support that amendment. Its intention is to delay the stated provisions of the Bill being brought into force until 1 January 2024. This will prevent the making of any commencement…
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Group 1: Welsh Government Relationship with the Commission (Amendments 151, 15, 16, 60)
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I welcome the opportunity to consider amendments to the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill today, and I'd like to place on the record my thanks to all members of the committee for their scrutiny of the Bill, and particularly to…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Well, they've got a very important role, haven't they, in supporting, both in terms of professional learning but also in understanding where schools are in terms of their need for further support. So, that needs analysis is under way at the moment…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Well, there are some online resources available at the moment, but, obviously, one of the recommendations that Estyn made in its report was to strengthen the partnership work, if you like, between schools and parents in relation to this area. So, we've…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Yes, that is a really important question. I do think it's important not to see the new curriculum as a solution to everything that we've been talking about, because it obviously isn't. So, the ethos of the new curriculum is for RSE to be embedded in the…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Yes, that's what I want to see. So, we've contacted all local authorities in Wales, via the Welsh Local Government Association, seeking information on where they are in terms of appointing the RSE leads within their own structures as well as the RSE leads in…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
That guidance, training and support, as you say, is absolutely essential, obviously, in delivering RSE in the new curriculum effectively, and that is around specialist expertise. Quite often, what we know to date is that the teaching of what we currently call…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
It is clearly part of the issue, isn't it? The problem is clearly the prevalence of access to online sexual content, including pornography of all sorts, really, and I think we've seen plenty of that talked about in the media this week, as well. Sometimes…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Just to say at the start, all education settings in Wales, obviously, have a legal duty to ensure that children have access to a safe learning environment, and in June last year, I wrote to all schools in the light of the publication of the material by…
