Education

Firt Minister says well done for best exam results ever
25/8/2010 - First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones congratulated students collecting their GCSE and Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification results. The First Minister, who joined students at Treorchy Comprehensive as they collected t...

Congratulations to Anglesey A level students
23/8/2010 - Corporate Director of Education and Leisure, Richard Parry Jones, is very pleased with the A level results in Anglesey secondary schools this year “I am very pleased with the results in the Anglesey schools again this ...

How do you know where your keys are?
21/8/2010 - How do you know where your keys are? Why do we develop habits and what influences our judgement? Throughout Cardiff University, psychologists, behavioural geneticists and neurologists are working together to understand...

Welsh Baccalaureate results up on last year
21/8/2010 - Leighton Andrews, Welsh Education Minister said, as he celebrated the success of Welsh students: “It’s wonderful to be able to share in the celebrations with students today – once again the young people of Wales have ever...

£4 million to help kids learn Welsh
16/8/2010 - A £4 million funding package to train early years Welsh medium practitioners has been announced by Education Minister Leighton Andrews. The Foundation Phase is a ground-breaking new approach to learning for children ag...

4,000 seek school counselling
11/8/2010 - School-based counselling services in Wales are helping thousands of children and young people become more confident in school and improve their attendance, Education Minister Leighton Andrews said today. Latest figures...

Read with your child every night.
5/8/2010 - A Welsh literacy campaign is urging parents to read with their children evey night. Speaking at the launch of the Welsh Assembly Government’s new literacy campaign at the National Eisteddfod, Education Minister Leighto...

Skills boost for workers in Pembrokeshire
27/7/2010 - A £2.2m scheme to help over 1,200 employees boost their skills and support Pembrokeshire's growing energy sector has been announced by Science, Innovation and Skills Deputy Minister, Lesley Griffiths. The Pembrokeshire...

Copper swaps uniform for cap and gown
27/7/2010 - A police sergeant from Conwy has realised his lifelong ambition by winning a law degree at Bangor University. Alan Jones, 47, who is a serving Police Sergeant with 28 years service, having served in London and North Wa...

New special school for Anglesey
26/7/2010 - Isle of Anglesey County Council has welcomed news of a successful bid for grant funding to build a new school. The Welsh Assembly Government’s Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has agreed...

Making Morriston School fit for 21st century
19/7/2010 - Swansea Council has been given a grant of more than £15 million to transform Morriston Comprehensive School to make it fit for the 21st century with wi-fi in every classroom and other cutting-edge faciliies. Funding a...

Mum fined after kids miss school
16/7/2010 - A Llanelli mother has been prosecuted for failing to make sure her children went to school. The mum, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty by post to two charges under the Education Act 1996 at Ammanfor...

New Welsh schools fit for 21st century
15/7/2010 - A third major funding package of £144.8million in new capital projects for schools across Wales has been announced by Education Minister Leighton Andrews. It will provide authorities with the means to build new school...

Rocker wrote hit song in Bangor Uni ibrary
12/7/2010 - Mike Peters was due to receive an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University today - but not just because he penned a Top 20 hit for his band The Alarm in the University Main Arts Library. The Prestatyn-born rock si...

Spy chief honoured by Cardiff
9/7/2010 - Former MI5 chief Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is to be presented with an honorary fellowship at Cardiff University next week. Others to be honoured include a writer, presenter and actor and an international rugby star...

Rocker gets a gown
6/7/2010 - Mike Peters, front man of rock band, The Alarm, tops the list of individuals who are to be awarded Honorary Fellowships this year by Bangor University for their distinguished contributions in various roles. Mike Peter...

Anglesey pupils speak up on DVD
6/7/2010 - Primary pupils on Anglesey provide the vocal talent behind a new educational DVD aimed at promoting responsible behaviour on school buses. Children from Ysgol y Fali became professional recording artists for a day when...

Welsh scientist in top 10 discoveries
30/6/2010 - Pioneering research by a Nobel prize-winning Welsh scientist has made it into an illustrious poll of the top ten discoveries from UK universities. Professor Martin Evans, Cardiff University’s President, was the first...

Obstacles to learning for over 16s
17/6/2010 - There are obstacles to overcome if a Welsh Government initiative to improve learning provision in Wales is to progress effectively, according to a cross-party National Assembly Committee. The Enterprise and Learning Co...

Cardiff seeks the biggest answers
15/6/2010 - Cardiff University is launching three major new research institutes to answer three of the biggest problems of the day. How do we increase survival rates for all types of cancer? How do we build and redesign cities ...

Kids will play the stock market
15/6/2010 - Students across North Wales will soon be experiencing the excitement of the stock market trading room floor thanks to a Bangor University initiative called Stock Market Challenge. The competition will give over 140 Yea...

Rape play comes to Flintshire schools
15/6/2010 - Flintshire County Council’s Community Safety Partnership (FCSP) has secured funding to run a series of theatre workshops for local schoolchildren which aim to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault. Of all th...

Top Welsh teachers
14/6/2010 - Top teachers in Wales won awards today when over 20 finalists from schools across the country were crowned winners or awarded distinctions or commendations. The ceremony at Cardiff City Hall was hosted by BBC TV pre...

Powys schools in danger
13/6/2010 - Secondary schools in Powys are facing serious financial decline and in danger of becoming unsustainable. That was the message of Powys County Council board member for schools, Councillor David Jones, as he reported th...

Tailor-made for a hen party
11/6/2010 - A University of Wales, Newport, student has hand-sewn 1,500 rooster feathers into an elegant evening gown she created as part of her graduation collection. Talis Bells' creation was one of the highlights of the annual...

National Science Academy for Wales
29/4/2010 - A National Science Academy is to be established in Wales to help deliver a stronger, more sustainable and resilient economy. The Academy will promote the take up of science, technology, engineering and mathematics - S...

Aberystwyth University voted world’s best
26/4/2010 - Aberystwyth University has been voted the best place in the world to be a student. It is ranked first out of 123 higher education institutions surveyed worldwide according to the 2009 International Student Barometer. T...

Taking the fear out of school tests
26/4/2010 - Primary-aged children across Wales will soon be having their literacy skills tested in a new series of assessments developed and launched by Swansea-based experts. Stories about family, school and adventure give the te...

Welsh language boost for schools
21/4/2010 - A new plan for Welsh-language education from nursery through to further and higher education has been announced. Education Minister Leighton Andrews said: “Today’s announcement clearly represents our long-term com...

What makes Obama and Lewis Hamilton so sexy?
14/4/2010 - People of mixed race are perceived as being more attractive than non-mixed-race people, a Cardiff University study has found. In the largest study of its kind, Dr Michael Lewis, School of Psychology, collected a rando...

Swansea school bad at sums
7/4/2010 - A Swansea school has been placed in special measures following an inspection which raised concerns over its leadership and management and effectiveness of teaching and education standards, particularly in maths and scien...

Newport primary school places
29/3/2010 - Letters offering reception and year group three primary school places in Newport starting in September 2010 were being issued today (Monday March 29). Parents are advised that if they have not received a letter advisin...

Golf on the curriculum as Ryder Cup nears
26/3/2010 - In a world first, teachers in Newport have reacted to being the host city for the 2010 Ryder Cup by creating a bilingual Ryder Cup-themed school curriculum. Using it, children from across Newport will be taught new s...

Cheap alcohol fuels Cardiff violence
26/3/2010 - A study in Cardiff has found that the cheaper the alcohol, the more violence is committed. The work has resulted in a Cardiff University professor being awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education. ...