Education

Mums' glums lead to violent children
5/2/2010 - Mothers who became depressed when pregnant were four times as likely to have children who were violent at 16, says a new study from Cardiff University. This was true for both boys and girls. The mothers' depression, in...

Whole new way of education for Heads of Valleys
5/2/2010 - More than £110m of Welsh Assembly Government funding has been set aside to transform the opportunities and prospects for young people, local residents and businesses in the Heads of the Valleys region. There will be ...

Life elsewhere in the universe, says Professor
3/2/2010 - As we enter a new decade a clear pronouncement of our likely alien ancestry and of the existence of extraterrestrial life on a cosmic scale would seem to be overdue, says a Cardiff professor. Evidence is “steadily mo...

All school bus seats should belt-up
2/2/2010 - A Welsh committee wants the the Assembly to insist on the use of single decked vehicles fitted with seatbelts and CCTV on all school transport contracted by local authorities. The National Assembly should be able to r...

Swansea to halve primary schools
1/2/2010 - Swansea Council is preparing studies for building six new primary schools to replace 13 existing schools where buildings and facilities are out-dated and in poor condition. The study is also in support of the review o...

Wales Tories slam £8m cost of school breakfasts
1/2/2010 - As the thousandth school in Wales started offering free breakfasts to pupils today Welsh Conservatives condemned the £8 million pound cost of the scheme. Shadow Education Minister Paul Davies AM said: "In such a dif...

Kids find best way to start the day
29/1/2010 - A Cardiff primary school is celebrating becoming the 1,000th school in Wales to offer free breakfasts. Baden Powell Primary School in Tremorfa began offering free breakfasts earlier this month as part of the Welsh Asse...

Wales help for deaf chidren to fulfil potential
26/1/2010 - Education Minister Leighton Andrews today announced that the Welsh Assembly Government has committed £17,591 to the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) Cymru to fund three regional events aimed at delivering deaf a...

Cutting red tape out of Wales education
18/1/2010 - Less spending on bureaucracy and more on schools, colleges and universities is the aim of a new review by the Welsh Assembly Government. Announcing the review today Education Minister Leighton Andrews.said, “We need ...

Wales school closures slammed
12/1/2010 - Plaid Cymru Assembly Member Leanne Wood today expressed concern over the impact of school closures on working parents in Wales. Leanne Wood, who represents South Wales Central, wrote to Education Minister Leighton Andr...

Wales helps army to go to war
12/1/2010 - Bangor University is helping the British army to transform raw recruits into mentally resilient soldiers who will perform under the most intense pressure imaginable, where mistakes can lead to death. Sport Psychologis...

Wales Baccalaureate grows
8/1/2010 - Centres offering Welsh Baccalaureate tops 200 mark More than 50,000 learners will now have the opportunity of taking the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification thanks to the latest roll-out at dozens of new centres throughout...

Why don't robins get fat?
21/12/2009 - New research by the School of Biosciences in Cardiff is shedding light on the reasons why the European robin doesn’t get fat even though they are feeding for much longer. Artificial light has been present in our envi...

£44 million investment in computing
14/12/2009 - A new £44m High Performance Computing (HPC) institute for Wales has been announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). HPC Wales, which will be delivered by Cardiff and Swansea Universities, w...

Goodwick initiative wins national award
14/12/2009 - An initiative at Ysgol Wdig in Goodwick which helps children with emotional, social, and behavioural difficulties to be successfully included in mainstream school has won a national award. The school is the first Welsh...

Scholarships for science students at Cardiff
11/12/2009 - Thirty first-year undergraduate students at Cardiff University are to benefit from a £1,000 scholarship scheme for students studying science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) subjects at research-intensive unive...

Blaenau Gwent celebrates coming of Eistedfodd
11/12/2009 - Children and parents joined in a lantern parade in support of the National Eisteddfod which comes to Blaenau Gwent in 2010. Local school children made special lanterns for the event. After Ebbw Vale’s town centre...

Carmarthenshire comes top in Duke of Edinburgh Awards
11/12/2009 - CARMARTHENSHIRE Council’s Youth Service is celebrating yet another achievement in its delivery of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Thanks to the hard work of schools, youth service staff and volunteers, Carmarthenshire ...

Nativity play with a difference
10/12/2009 - Come and join the villagers and children of Llandrillo on 12 December at 5pm to celebrate the festive season with a special open air performance of the Nativity with a difference. Instead of being performed entirely by...

High tech institute could create 400 jobs
10/12/2009 - A new £44m high-tech Institute could create 400 skilled jobs and put Wales at the fore-front of computer technology, said Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain today. Mr Hain was welcoming an announcement from BIS ...

Llandovery pupils raise £750 for Children in Need
9/12/2009 - Llandovery school pupils are riding high on the crest of a wave after raising over £750 for Children in Need by rowing around the world twice! Children from years seven and eight at Ysgol Pantycelyn clocked up an impr...

Early Christmas gift for Pembrokeshire children
9/12/2009 - Pupils from Stepaside CP School. Pembrokeshire, have won first prize in the annual Christmas Tree Decorating Competition at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The 15 children from Class 3 were the winners in the pri...

Erin Price is top of the class for Welsh
8/12/2009 - A Prestatyn school girl has been rewarded by North Wales Police for her efforts in learning Welsh. For the past three years staff from the Administration of Justice Department (AJD) in Prestatyn have been attending reg...

First Cafe Sci launched in Pembroke school
1/12/2009 - The first young people's Café Sci in Wales has been launched at Pembroke School library by Jason Bradbury, writer and presenter on Five's Gadget Show. Café Sci is a network of school-based cafés designed to bring sc...

Pembrokeshire schools take the Oscars
30/11/2009 - Two Pembrokeshire schools have won awards at an Oscar-style film ceremony in London. Sageston CP School and Ysgol y Preseli both won their categories in the 2009 National Schools Film and Animation awards at the Britis...

Welsh universities to study climate change
27/11/2009 - Experts from across Cardiff University are part of a Wales-wide consortium to study the impact of climate change and considerably enhance the climate science profile of Wales. Announced today, Cardiff has joined forces...

Cardiff scientist wins fold medal
26/11/2009 - A Cardiff scientist has been recognised for his ground-breaking research into the most common form of adult leukaemia with a prestigious award from The Royal College of Pathologists. Dr Saman Hewamana of the School of ...

Caerphilly crackdown on truancy
26/11/2009 - Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Education Welfare Officers in partnership with the Caerphilly Neighbourhood Policing Team stopped 20 comprehensive school pupils recently, as part of an operation aimed at tackling tr...

Radical transformation of Welsh higher education
26/11/2009 - The radical transformation of Higher Education (HE) in Wales has been announced by Education Minister, Jane Hutt. She has outlined a significant shift in how the £400m + annual funding from the Welsh Assembly Governme...

Neil Kinnock passes baton to nobel laureate
24/11/2009 - Cardiff University yesterday marked the Inauguration of its new President, formally passing the honour from one major figure in the University’s history to another. The Inauguration of Professor Sir Martin Evans as t...

Pupils say welcome in Mongolian
23/11/2009 - Pupils at Prendergast School in Pembrokeshire made a special effort when they received a VIP recently. They took the trouble to find out the spelling of the world ‘welcome' in Mongolian so that they could offer a friend...

Lifejackets - the difference between life and death
19/11/2009 - Lifejackets can make the difference between life and death its as simple as that, say the Maritime and Coastguard Agency who are appealing to the loved ones of commercial fishermen to persuade them to wear lifejackets wh...

£8.7 million plan for Crownbridge Special School
17/11/2009 - Plans to modernise and transform additional learning needs education in Torfaen have taken a major step forward after the cabinet approved plans for the next phases of the transformation of Crownbridge Special School. ...

£32 million to improve Welsh pupils aspiration
12/11/2009 - More than 12,000 young people across South West Wales who are at risk of falling out of school or further education studies are set to benefit from a new £32 million scheme to improve their chances of success, Deputy Min...