, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Just building from the last question is this point around wanting to expand the number of people who are confident in using Welsh and how the training and education environment helps them to do that. I'm bearing in mind Lisa's point that, in some areas, it's…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay. That's fine. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Okay, so is it fair to say, then, that you don't particularly have a view on whether the CEFR framework can adequately cover people with no Welsh-medium ability? But I'm interested in how the sector would look at, coming to some of the points that Alun Davies…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14
Good morning, bore da, Rhian. I’m going to carry on asking questions about CEFR, and whether you think it can be applied effectively in the context that the Bill proposes, especially within the tertiary education and training sector.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
In this area of getting the workforce to deliver against the ambitions of the Bill, I understand why you want there to be a workforce plan, but this goes back to some of Lee Waters's questions earlier about having the ambition in the Bill. Saying we need to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Can I come in?
, 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
That's encouraging. The final question is about whether the Bill does enough to support and develop opportunities for language use. I guess it's distinct, again, from the points that Lee was making earlier about the wider context outside education. From the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Thank you. I think you answered this question, but it's about whether the CEFR model enables you to understand and measure someone's ability, both pre A1 and for those people who can't speak Welsh at all. And there will be some people who can't, for a number…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
I think you’ve answered my next—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13
Bore da, Gadeirydd. Bore da, bawb. I’m going to ask some questions that I have asked of previous witnesses about the use of CEFR—the common European framework of reference. And it’s not just about whether it can be applied effectively, in your view, in the…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I'm sure there will.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. We've not had further comment back from the petitioner on this matter, but the subject is really tying up with much of the first two petitions, with the funding, but also the review of provision, as well as the work of the Children, Young…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
I do.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
You should write your own blog, on the new places you visited this summer. [Laughter.]
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
No, I did not.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Do you have camping on your farm?
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. Diolch, Cadeirydd. The response from the Minister and the response from the petitioner are actually quite constructive and helpful in moving matters forward. The Minister makes it clear that the Welsh Government is mindful of the desire of a range of…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
It's just worth noting that Welsh Ministers do intend to write guidance under Chapter 4 of some of the legislation we've already passed. It'll still then be a matter for political parties to take steps, but that will be publicly made available if the…
, Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Agree, Chair.
, Petitions Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Just to note, given the items we're to discuss today, I am an honorary associate of the British Veterinary Association.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
Can I just ask, because I think it will help us to move on—? When you hear evidence like this, sometimes people get very excited and say that it means that nothing is going to work, people are moving in different directions and this undermines the purpose of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
The GCSE hasn't been developed in that same way. We're talking about mapping across what the GCSEs are going to do, as they're introduced from 2025. So, it's really about not just the appropriateness of CEFR but how much work you'd anticipate you'd want or…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
It follows on from what you've already had to say about CEFR and its usage, and about how appropriate CEFR is in the context of the Bill and in particular what you've already had to say about the fact that we've got new GCSEs. So, there's the Cymraeg and the…
