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Plenary 20/11/2018 - National Assembly for Wales

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The National Assembly for Wales is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people, makes laws for Wales, agrees Welsh taxes and holds the Welsh Government to account.

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A review of systems for monitoring and improving the effectiveness of post-compulsory education and training (PCET)

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A report by Professor Harvey P. Weingarten on process recommendations and implementation.

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Executive Summary Public Good and a Prosperous Wales –the next steps

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Executive Summary Public Good and a Prosperous Wales –the next steps

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Earlier this year, I published a technical consultation document "Public Good and a Prosperous Wales - the next steps" and I am today publishing a summary of the responses to the consultation.

https://beta.gov.wales/tertiary-education-and-research-commission-wales

The technical consultation took account of the feedback received from the earlier White Paper published in 2017 and explained in more detail how we envisaged the new Commission might operate. The consultation closed on 17 July; a total of 422 written responses were received.

During the consultation period a number of themed focus groups were also held with selected stakeholders. They each covered a particular section of the technical consultation and stakeholders with a particular interest in these areas were invited to attend.

I would like to thank all those who contributed to the consultation for their views and helping to shape the next stage of our proposals. I was pleased to see that the responses remain broadly supportive of the principles, and there were also refinements of some areas of thinking suggested. That thinking is being taken fully into account as the policy develops during the legislative process.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Miller Research Ltd, who facilitated the stakeholder focus groups, and provided this detailed analysis of the written responses.

My commitment to bring forward legislation within this Assembly term remains firm and we will continue to engage with stakeholders going forward to ensure the new Commission will be able to work effectively in the national interest and for all learners.

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Written Statement - Summary of responses to 'Public Good and a Prosperous Wales - Next steps'

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Earlier this year, I published a technical consultation document "Public Good and a Prosperous Wales - the next steps" and I am today publishing a summary of the responses to the consultation. https://beta.gov.wales/tertiary-education-and-research-commission-wales The technical consultation took account of the feedback received from the earlier White Paper published in 2017 and explained in more detail how we envisaged the new Commission might operate.

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Public Good and a Prosperous Wales - consultation

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Public Good and a Prosperous Wales - consultation

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The National Assembly for Wales is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people, makes laws for Wales, agrees Welsh taxes and holds the Welsh Government to account.

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Welsh Govt accepts reccommendations of Hazelcorn:

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Welsh Govt accepts reccommendations of Hazelcorn:

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The Welsh Government has accepted the recommendations made by Professor Ellen Hazelkorn in her review into education in Wales.

The review, published in March last year, was commissioned to examine the provision gaps across post-compulsory education and training.

Professor Hazelkorn's recommendations included the creation of a new body to oversee further and higher education training, to which the Welsh Government has agreed.

Professor Hazelkorn previously told BBC Wales that she saw the new body as having more to do with 'leading and shaping' further and higher education rather than just a funding role.

The review emphasised the ways in which education can improve social justice and economic growth. Its recommendations included equal value and support for vocational and academic pathways and an improvement of connections between qualifications and the labour market.

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Welsh Government accepts recommendations by Ellen Hazelkorn

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The Welsh Government has accepted the recommendations made by Professor Ellen Hazelkorn in her review into education in Wales. The review, published in March last year, was commissioned to examine the provision gaps across post-compulsory education and training. Professor Hazelkorn's recommendations included the creation of a new body to oversee further and higher education training, to which the Welsh Government has agreed.

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Today at the Disabled Students Conference in Manchester the Disabled Students' Officer, James Elliott, launched a report on further education students' experiences of mental health. The report also includes a charter for mental health provision in colleges, which has been built with and for FE students.

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Further Education and Mental Health Report @ NUS Connect

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Today at the Disabled Students Conference in Manchester the Disabled Students' Officer, James Elliott, launched a report on further education students' experiences of mental health. The report also includes a charter for mental health provision in colleges, which has been built with and for FE students.

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Designed by teachers. Built for children. The feedback period for Curriculum for Wales 2022 has now closed and all responses are currently being considered.
Get started

More information and guidance

Feedback period closes

New curriculum and assessment arrangements finalised and available

Schools using the new curriculum - Nursery to Year 7

New curriculum rolled out to Years 8 to 11 between 2023 and 2026

What happens next

Meet a few of our pioneers

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Designed by teachers. Built for children. The feedback period for Curriculum for Wales 2022 has now closed and all responses are currently being considered.

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Digital Competence Framework: draft Curriculum for Wales 2022 version - Hwb

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Our long-term vision for Wales by 2050 is to be the best place to live, learn, work, and do business. We want our businesses, our public services, the third sector and Government to have worked together to achieve the goals that are set out in the proposed and ground-breaking Future Generations Bill (working title).

We will have thought more about the long term, worked better together, taken early action and engaged with citizens on this journey. This will mean people in Wales are healthier and happier and more bilingual; our economy is prosperous and our environment is resilient. This will help improve the well-being of Wales over the long term by taking a sustainable development path.

Today, Wales faces a number of complex challenges. Many of these are a legacy from the past, but it is important that this generation does not leave them as challenges for the next. We need to create sustainable, quality jobs and get the right economic growth to lift people out of poverty. We need to make our environment and our communities more resilient to the major environmental problems we face, including addressing declining biodiversity. We need people to be healthy, to achieve their potential and to make Wales a more equal society. We need to reduce our consumption of natural resources and act to tackle the causes and consequences of climate change.

We must think differently and we must act collectively.

We are not alone in taking up this challenge. Over the past two years there has been a global conversation, facilitated by the United Nations, with people the world over to seek their views on a set of international Sustainable Development Goals which build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals. In Wales too, we need to build a consensus around the shared goals which are the most important to all of us, including our children and grandchildren.
Proposed draft Goals for Wales' future
Our proposals for a Future Generations Bill will set ambitious, long term goals to reflect the Wales we want to see in the future. Putting these goals into law will set a course for public services in Wales to pull together towards a healthier and more prosperous country, by balancing the economy, the environment and society. To help achieve these shared goals, we propose to make it the law that named public service organisations must show how they contribute effectively to the achievement of the goals through the objectives that they set and the actions that they take.

It is intended that statutory partnerships will be established so that organisations are enabled to work better together at the local level. We will continue to use other tools available to us such as the refreshed Sustainable Development Charter. Our approach to sustainable procurement will enable us to engage businesses, the third sector, and other organisations. This will help to achieve these goals so that we improve the lives of people now and in the future.

We have developed proposed draft goals to help inform discussion on the Wales we want by 2050, as follows:

Wales is prosperous and innovative

Wales is a more equal nation

Wales uses a fair share of natural resources

People in Wales are healthier

Communities across Wales are safer, cohesive and resilient

People in Wales participate in our shared culture, with a thriving Welsh language

We will measure the progress we are collectively making to achieve the goals.
The pilot national conversation
As a Government, we have a key role in promoting a more inclusive and empowered society, now and for decades to come.

To support this aspiration and to make it real, I want to involve people across Wales in conversations on what are the most important issues for them in improving their lives and those of their families and communities.

Today the Commissioner for Sustainable Futures is launching a pilot national conversation to enhance our understanding of the long term issues that future generations might face. It will be an opportunity for everybody to inform the long term goals for Wales.

It will consist of a number of engagement exercises over three months, which will feed into an interim report on behalf of our Future Generations in Wales that will be published prior to the introduction of the Bill to the National Assembly for Wales.

I would urge Assembly Members to become involved and to encourage your constituents to join the conversation over the next three months. The conversation will reach out across Wales and engage with as many people as possible. Reaching young people as part of this will be essential - they are the next generation and the parents and grandparents of future generations.

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Written Statement - The Future Generations Bill - the Wales we Want by 2050

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Our long-term vision for Wales by 2050 is to be the best place to live, learn, work, and do business. We want our businesses, our public services, the third sector and Government to have worked together to achieve the goals that are set out in the proposed and ground-breaking Future Generations Bill (working title).

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On Tuesday 20 June 2017 the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams, will make a statement on Post Compulsory Education and Training Consultation. This is likely to be the announcement of the consultation on the Welsh Government's plans to implement its response to Professor Ellen Hazelkorn's report, Towards 2030: A framework for building a world-class post-compulsory education system for Wales.
16 June 2017 Darllenwch yr erthygl yma yn Gymraeg | View this post in Welsh
On Tuesday 20 June 2017 the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams, will make a statement on Post Compulsory Education and Training Consultation. This is likely to be the announcement of the consultation on the Welsh Government's plans to implement its response to Professor Ellen Hazelkorn's report, Towards 2030: A framework for building a world-class post-compulsory education system for Wales.

A consultation on the report's findings was one of Kirsty William's ten education priorities, as set out in an exchange of letters with the First Minister prior to her joining the Welsh Government. Plans to consult on the proposals were set out in a statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education on 31 January 2017.

Towards 2030: A framework for building a world-class post-compulsory education system for Wales (The Hazelkorn Report)

The Welsh Government announced in July 2015 it was commissioning Professor Ellen Hazelkorn, Policy Adviser to the Higher Education Authority and Director of the Higher Education Research Unit, Dublin Institute of Technology, to undertake a Review of the Oversight and Regulation of Post-Compulsory Education and Training in Wales.

The current Cabinet Secretary for Education has stated that:

The previous administration commissioned the review because of concerns about the growing complexity of the post-compulsory education and training system. This includes further education, higher education, work-based learning and adult community education. The various sectors and providers are regulated and funded in different ways by different bodies and the result can be unhelpful competition between education and training providers, duplication or gaps in provision and confusion for learners.

Professor Hazelkorn's report, Towards 2030: A framework for building a world-class post-compulsory education system for Wales, was published in March 2016. The report contained six high-level recommendations. These were:

1. Develop an overarching vision for the post-compulsory education system for Wales based upon stronger links between education policy, providers and provision, and social and economic goals to ensure the needs of Wales are future-proofed as far as is practicable.

2. Establish a single new authority - to be called the Tertiary Education Authority (TEA) - as the single regulatory, oversight and co-ordinating authority for the post-compulsory sector.

3. Place the needs of learners at the centre of the educational system, by establishing clear and flexible learning and career pathways.

4. Civic engagement should be embedded as a core mission and become an institution wide-commitment for all post-compulsory institutions.

5. Create a better balance between supply-led and demand-led education and research provision, shifting away from a market-demand driven system to a mix of regulation and competition-based funding.

6. Create the appropriate policies, processes and practices to encourage better long-term and joined-up thinking about the educational needs and requirements for Wales, now and into the future.

For more detail on the report and its reception by stakeholders, please see our earlier blog on the topic in January 2017.

The then Minister for Education and Skills, Huw Lewis, issued a statement on 10 March 2016 when Professor Hazelkorn's report was published. The then Minister said he was publishing the report 'in order for stakeholders and other interested parties to have the earliest opportunity to consider the report, its analysis, findings and recommendations' before the Assembly election. Huw Lewis also said he would 'make no comment on the report at this stage; it [would] be for the new Government ... to consider and determine its response'.

Welsh Government Proposals

On 31 January 2017, the Cabinet Secretary for Education made a statement during Plenary. This statement constituted the Welsh Government's response to Professor Hazelkorn's Report. In it, the Cabinet Secretary highlighted that she broadly agrees with, and supports, the findings of Professor Hazelkorn.

In particular, Kirsty Williams felt that the recommendation to establish a single strategic authority, responsible for overseeing all aspects of post-compulsory education and training, 'i s tried and tested in successful systems' and that she wants 'Wales to enjoy those same advantages'. Consequently, the Welsh Government's intentions are to give this new body:

...responsibility for planning, funding, contracting, ensuring quality, financial monitoring, audit and performance, and be the lead funder of research. In line with Professor Hazelkorn's recommendations, the current functions of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales [HEFCW] would be transferred to the new authority, which would operate at arm's length from the Welsh Government.

It is intended that this new authority, provisionally named the Tertiary Education Authority (TEA) by Professor Hazelkorn, will place:

...the needs of learners at the heart of the education system by establishing a clear and flexible learning and career pathway; ...[supporting] parity of esteem between vocational and academic pathways and connections between qualifications and the labour market.

In the January 2017 statement Cabinet Secretary announced that the Welsh Government planned 'to consult, later on this year, on proposals for establishing a single strategic authority', noting that

It is critical that we hear from learners, leaders and practitioners on how post-compulsory education and training meets their needs and can be an even greater force for the social mobility and national prosperity.

It is likely that the statement on the 20 th June 2017 will be announcing further detail of the anticipated consultation.
Article by Joseph Champion, National Assembly for Wales Research Service.
Image from Pixabay by ulleo. Licensed under Creative Commons.
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On Tuesday 20 June 2017 the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams, will make a statement on Post Compulsory Education and Training Consultation. This is likely to be the announcement of the consultation on the Welsh Government's plans to implement its response to Professor Ellen Hazelkorn's report, Towards 2030: A framework for building a world-class...

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Useful for looking at what might happen. Review by Hazelkorn in 2016

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‘Linking teaching and research in disciplines and departments

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‘Linking teaching and research in disciplines and departments

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Under New Managment - changing conceptions of teacher professionalism and policy in the further education sector (2010)

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Under New Managment - changing conceptions of teacher professionalism and policy in the further education sector (2010)

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National Literacy and Numeracy Framework

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National Literacy and Numeracy Framework

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http://learning.gov.wales/resources/browse-all/nlnf/?lang=en

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http://padlet.com/nickallen/welshbac

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A key driver for changes to qualifications ...

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Final Report
http://gov.wales/docs/dcells/publications/121127reviewofqualificationsen.pdf

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Consultation Document

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http://www.accreditedqualifications.org.uk/qualifications-and-credit-framework-qcf.html

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https://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/skills-policy/wolf-report

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Alison Wolf's summary of her 'monograph' publication of 2009

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Alison Wolf's summary of her 'monograph' publication of 2009

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http://www.iea.org.uk/publications/research/an-adult-approach-to-further-education
Do you agree with her?

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Public Sector Management at King 's College London

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The Politics of UK Higher Education Today

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Prof Alison Wolf - 'An Adult Approach to Further Education'

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Alison Wolf, Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London, explains how the UK further education sector can be reformed to improve outcomes for students and reduce taxpayer subsidies. Based on the IEA book: http://www.iea.org.uk/publications/research/an-adult-approach-to-further-education

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Review of vocational education - The Wolf Report

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Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, and Professor Alison Wolf discuss the review of vocational education. See pictures from the event and read the press notice here http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/pressnotices/a0075181/wolf-review-proposes-major-reform-of-vocational-education

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What is it?
Is your qualification on it?

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QUALIFICATIONS WALES  PRIORITY QUALIFICATIONS LIST POLICY

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QUALIFICATIONS WALES  PRIORITY QUALIFICATIONS LIST POLICY

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The chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee has claimed that the government "doesn't give a toss" about FE.

Speaking at the Further Education Trust for Leadership's symposium today, Labour MP Iain Wright said that while the sector was "essential" to economic prosperity, it wasn't being treated as a priority by a government which perceived the sector as a "sort of bit in the middle".

"I think FE and the role of FE should be at the very heart of our business and skills policy," he told the audience. "I think in terms of the way in which it can drive economic growth, it can improve living standards for large parts of the population but also, linked in with that, [providing] social mobility for a whole range of different people is absolutely essential. This is good for business, and it's good for society.

"FE has a massive, positive role, and on that basis it should be a big priority. And I feel it's not... Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, I think government is letting go of FE, by showing that it doesn't give a toss. And I really worry about that, because schools are seen as education, universities are seen as a priority, and there's a sort of bit in the middle that's not considered to be important whatsoever. And actually [it] could be the real difference between economic growth and failure, social mobility and social inertia. Making sure FE is a priority in our business and skills policy I think goes halfway towards trying to solve some of the challenges that we have."

'A numbers game'

Mr Wright also told delegates that he was concerned that learners were being caught up in a "numbers game" in relation to the government's drive to create 3 million apprenticeships by 2020.

He said: "One of the key drivers of the department, one of the key objectives of the secretary of state, and the centrepiece of the government's skills policy, is the achievement of 3 million apprenticeships by 2020. I'm concerned that it's just a numbers game and the government will do anything - whether it's rebadging, whether it's disregarding equality - as a means to be able to say 'we've achieved 3 million [apprenticeships by 2020]. And that's not good."

"[Also] no-one knows what the apprenticeship levy is going to look like. Colleges and employers are going to have to start putting into place structures and processes in about six months' time, and they're doing it in a vacuum of darkness. I just don't understand how the sector will be able to react," he said.

This afternoon, skills minister Nick Boles spoke about the government's apprenticeship plans in the House of Commons. He told MPs: "Businesses and colleges should be congratulated for helping apprenticeships move from strength to strength. I am hugely proud of the success we have achieved together and look forward to even more young people getting the chance to work hard and get on."
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The government 'doesn't give a toss' about FE, says select committee chair

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The chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee has claimed that the government "doesn't give a toss" about FE. Speaking at the Further Education Trust for Leadership's symposium today, Labour MP Iain Wright said that while the sector was "essential" to economic prosperity, it wasn't being treated as a priority by a government which perceived the sector as a "sort of bit in the middle".

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'This review considers how vocational education for 14- to 19-year-olds can be improved in order to promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher level education and training routes. It provides practical recommendations to help inform future policy direction, taking into account current financial constraints.'