The first guest speaker was Ken Jones and he spoke about the role of the authorities in education and the main effected issues. It started off by him asking if we knew who the current Minister for Education in Wales is, and that is Leighton Andrews and the Predecessor is Jane Davidson. Ken explained about the changes that have happened over time and from the reorganisation in 1999 there are now 22 unitary authorities when there used to be only 8, and from this change problems have occurred and schools have closed due to the number of LA’s.
He also spoke about the programme for international student’s assessment PISA. This is used to test students in English, Maths and Science. In 2006 70 countries were tested by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and I was very shocked to learn how low wales are in the ranking. The response to this was to set up the School Effective Framework, which is ‘Key Policy for Education Reform’ and this would aim to improve learning and wellbeing for children,
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