Last week, the Welsh Assembly government announced its strategy for digital inclusion at the Digital Inclusion Wales Conference in Swansea. As outlined before, there are 10 million people in the UK who have never been online, and around 750,000 of…
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The news of Wales’s position at the bottom of the GVA heap should be no great surprise. This is no great surprise because Wales was bottom of the league in 2000 as well. However, while Wales’s poor relations of the North…
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This week we have had a couple of posts about one of the great political issues that engages with almost everyone – education. On Monday, Anne Crowley noted that the broken promises over fees are likely to alienate young people…
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The results for Wales in the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment which have been released could be seen as a defining moment for devolved education policy and indeed devolution as a whole. They appear to frustrate such hopes and generally…
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Like thousands of others over the last ten days I have slipped and slid on my way to work, the shops and school along mostly ungritted pavements. Some of them are now trodden to sheets of solid ice which would…
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