Laura Anne Jones MS: Labour’s education reforms must be reviewed – Institute of Welsh Affairs

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1. Whilst I don’t like to give a Tory any compliments, this is actually a pretty well thought through and well written piece. A lot of it is hard to disagree with, especially the part about *”£130,000 spent on the consultation to reform the school holiday, which nobody asked for and has been rejected by every teaching union in Wales.”* This really does seem like a waste of time, money and energy.

   Trouble is that it’s very hard to see what the Welsh Conservatives offer that will improve any of this in any way. Certainly not whilst Andrew RT is at the helm.

2. When the IWA thinks that Wales should do A, the Government’s response should be to always do B.

3. “Yet rather than address any issues facing education, Labour continuously get distracted with pet projects and social justice initiatives.”

   I presume these distracting ‘social justice initiatives’ are things like making sure kids get enough to eat. Which the Tories would presumably refuse to be distracted by in their quest for improved GCSE maths results or whatever it is that they would do better.

4. I sat in on a school parental feedback meeting the other week where the deputy heads outlined their work based on the WAG curriculum.

   It was very apparent that WAG haven’t helped schools at all to the point that its up to the school what they teach, how they teach it and how they measure performance.

   The school has even had to develop its own pupil progress scheme to grade and monitor each pupils expected vs actual performance.

   All of the teaching framework and resources should be handed to schools ready and fit for purpose.