Wales

The latest news, analysis, investigations and professional advice covering everything to do with the education sector in Wales

Friday

8th Dec 2023

Wales’ Pisa results have ‘an air of inevitability’
Falling maths, reading and science Pisa scores cannot be entirely blamed on Covid – so what else has been going wrong in Wales, asks Gareth Evans
Dominos falling

Wednesday

22nd Nov 2023

Jeremy Miles: ‘We will use every lever to support schools’
Challenging behaviour, worsening attendance and lower levels of literacy and numeracy must not be allowed to become ‘the new normal’, says Wales’ education minister
Jeremy Miles welsh classroom

Monday

20th Nov 2023

Wales moves to shake up school holidays calendar
A five-week summer break and a two-week October holiday are proposed, but a school leaders’ union says it is ‘bewildered’ by the plans
Shake up calendar

Tuesday

24th Oct 2023

Welsh schools told ‘make learning interesting’ to cut absence
Attendance will improve if pupils ‘actively want to come to school’, says new government guidance
Science class experiement

Thursday

28th Sep 2023

Wales to set up school attendance taskforce
Percentage of secondary pupils persistently absent in Wales trebled last year, compared with before the Covid pandemic
School attendance taskforce to be established in Wales as absence rises