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Mae’r Cyfnod Sylfaen (a gyflwynwyd yn 2008) yn cynnig cwricwlwm o ddysgu trwy brofiad, sy’n briodol yn ddatblygiadol, i blant 3 i 7 oed yng Nghymru. Nod y gwerthusiad annibynnol (dan arweiniad WISERD), a gomisiynwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, yw gwerthuso pa mor dda y caiff ei roi ar waith, beth fu ei effaith, a ffyrdd…

Mae’r Cyfnod Sylfaen (a gyflwynwyd yn 2008) yn cynnig cwricwlwm o ddysgu trwy brofiad, sy’n briodol yn ddatblygiadol, i blant 3 i 7 oed yng Nghymru. Nod y gwerthusiad annibynnol (dan arweiniad WISERD), a gomisiynwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, yw gwerthuso pa mor dda y caiff ei roi ar waith, beth fu ei effaith, a ffyrdd…

Yn yr adroddiad hwn, amlinellwn gynnydd y gwerthusiad yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf (2012/13). Hefyd, rhown fanylion am Gyfnod II y gwerthusiad; i raddau helaeth, mae wedi cynnwys casglu gwybodaeth fanwl am weithredu’r Cyfnod Sylfaen mewn pedwar deg un ysgol a deg lleoliad a ariennir nas cynhelir ym mhob cwr o Gymru. Dyma bedwar prif…

In 1997 John Martinussen’s “Society, State and Market: A guide to competing theories of development” was published in English. It was an important book, a model of its kind, written with lucidity and simplicity, and considered the most comprehensive account of international development then in print. As reviewers observed, its contribution was to discuss development…

In recent years, widening participation in higher education in Wales has been a key policy drive of the Welsh Government. Central to meeting its widening access agenda has been the adoption of area based strategies to widening access to higher education(HE) in Wales. This has been manifest in the targeting of residents of Communities First…

In recognition of inequitable rates of participation in higher education amongst individuals from different social groups, the Welsh Government has implemented policies putatively aimed at widening access to HE amongst social groups traditionally underrepresented therein (Welsh Government, 2009). Given the Welsh Government’s emphasis on widening access to HE in Wales in recent years, there are…

Widening access to higher education has been a central theme within the Welsh Government’s strategy for higher education in recent years. This widening access agenda is predicated on the basis that particular social groups (namely, those from particular social, ethnic or geographical backgrounds) are under-represented in HE. Widening access to HE opportunities to these groups…

Widening participation in higher education has been a central pillar of UK Government’s higher education policy since the 1990s. In Wales, the centrality of the ‘widening access’ agenda within its strategy for higher education has resulted in pressure on HEIs to expand access to HE opportunities to those traditionally under-represented in it. With the aim…

The quantitative strand of the project will use a linked database of school and student records that has already been prepared by the Welsh Government. This database (subsequently referred to as the Widening Access Database) is based upon four linked administrative data-sets: the National Pupil Database (NPD) for Wales (including Pupil Level Annual Schools Census…