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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Vaughan, you started by referring to austerity and the tight budgetary constraints that you've had to face over the last 14 years. And that is right, but of course England, Scotland and Northern Ireland also had that austerity to face as well, but their…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I thank everyone who has contributed to this very important debate today. I am very grateful to the Conservatives for their support. But I just want to respond to some of the points that have been raised before I bring…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Throughout this debate, we will hear more from my colleagues on how the funding crisis is impacting schools and how poverty is having an impact on pupils' attainment levels, in addition to how Government failures in education have longer term impacts on our…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Let's turn now to literacy. Is it that surprising that we've seen such low levels of attainment here in Wales? Well, it turns out that the Welsh Government has been giving mixed messaging on the teaching guidance for reading skills. In recent weeks, the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I start with a quotation, and it goes like this: 'The educational landscape in Wales is currently facing a harrowing funding crisis, casting shadows over the quality and accessibility of education for its youth…
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Debate on petition P-06-1474, 'Stop Natural Resources Wales closing Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Coed y Brenin & Ynyslas visitor centres'
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. As a Member of the Senedd who represents these three centres in Mid and West Wales, I want to very much welcome this petition. I'm very pleased to see that more than 13,000 people have signed the petition, which shows the…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Welsh-medium education through late immersion
Now, very ironically, I do remember that emulating Canada's models back in the 1970s and 1980s—that's what Wales did in order to develop this idea of Welsh-medium education, so it's interesting to see that Québec is, by now, looking at our models and wants to…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Welsh-medium education through late immersion
I thank you, as the Cabinet Secretary, for the statement. Late immersion, as we all know, is a very important element of ensuring that we do reach the goal of a million Welsh speakers, and is part of the 'Cymraeg 2050' strategy. I also welcome the statement…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much. Time and again, you as a Government have encouraged people to use their cars less and to use public transport in order to meet climate change and net-zero targets. But I'm increasingly concerned that these are empty words, because what's…
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Questions to the First Minister
2. Will the First Minister outline the Welsh Government's public transport priorities for Mid and West Wales? OQ61676
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Short Debate: A fair chance—Ensuring blind and partially sighted people can live the life they choose
While marvelling at the Paralympic Games this summer, I was reminded of my latest foray into the sporting arena—a hotly contested game between my office and Llanelli's visually impaired bowls club, down at the Selwyn Samuel Centre in Llanelli. Now, to…
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Short Debate: A fair chance—Ensuring blind and partially sighted people can live the life they choose
Thank you, Julie, for bringing forward this important debate, and thank you for the opportunity to contribute.
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Women's healthcare
I'm extremely grateful to Delyth for bringing forward this vital debate, and for the opportunity to support it here on the floor of the Senedd. As we've already heard, the challenges and disappointments that women have to face when fighting for fair and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Yes—have left the teaching profession since 2016.
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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?
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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…
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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
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Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much.
