As children in Wales go back to school (or rather, don’t go back because of INSET days), the ‘education debate’ (2011 version) is, unusually, rumbling on. Pundits and experts galore have had a heyday putting the education system to rights,…
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I’m not an educationalist and I don’t know a huge amount about education policy either, but not knowing much doesn’t normally stop me commenting on something and it won’t do this time either. Last week’s A-level results inWalesdidn’t trigger the…
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‘Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?’ asked Neil, famously, in 1987. It wasn’t because previous Kinnocks were thick or talentless or uncommitted: ‘it was because there was no platform…
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It’s August and it’s time for parents to buy school uniform. Newspapers are full of ads from major outlets about how cheaply a full uniform can be bought. Anyone without school-age children will doubtless marvel at the bargains to be…
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This issue of Review, for Summer 2011, looks at the challenges the new Welsh Government faces in its fourth term – these are not only challenging in their own right but come at a time of public spending cuts and reform…
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