Our first guest speaker in the What is education module was Ken Jones, he taught us about the Welsh national assembly government and what they are currently doing for education in Wales. He first asked us if we were aware who the current minister for education is, as none of us knew who it was he then told us it is Leighton Andrews. On that note he then continued to explain the role of the local authorities in education today opposed to before. He explained about the different authorities which there used to be 8 but now there are 22 unitary authorities, he also explained the difficulty this has made for schools. Due to the lack of LA’s in each authority there have been many school closures in the rural areas of Wales.
Ken also told us about the programme for international students testing (PISA) which is a test that compares how 70 countries are doing in English, Maths and Science. The countries were then compared and contrasted to see which country is doing the best at what. We looked at the results and there were some less satisfying results for Wales compared to England, here is a snippet of the results.
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