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Towards the end of 2012, Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, invited a senior group of experts in their personal capacity to revisit the Faure Report (1972) and the Delors Report (1996). This international group, co-chaired by Amina Mohammed, of Nigeria, and by W. John Morgan, of the United Kingdom, was asked to develop a…

This paper explores the complex relationship between social justice and education in the public and private spheres. The politics of education is often presented as a battle between left and right, the state and the market. In this representation, the public and the private spheres are neatly aligned on either side of the line of…

Polisi blaenllaw Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer addysg y blynyddoedd cynnar (i blant 3 i 7 oed) yng Nghymru yw’r Cyfnod Sylfaen. Mae’n nodi gwyriad radical oddi wrth yr ymagwedd fwy ffurfiol, yn seiliedig ar gymhwysedd, a oedd yn gysylltiedig â Chwricwlwm Cenedlaethol blaenorol Cyfnod Allweddol 1, ac mae’n eiriol dull atblygiadol, arbrofol o addysgu a…

Polisi amlwg gan Lywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer addysg blynyddoedd cynnar (i blant 3-7 oed) yng Nghymru yw’r Cyfnod Sylfaen. Mae’n newid cyfeiriad sylweddol o’r dull mwy ffurfiol ar sail galluoedd oedd yn gysylltiedig â’r Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol blaenorol ar gyfer Cyfnod Allweddol 1. Mae’r polisi wedi’i gyflwyno fesul tipyn dros y saith mlynedd ddiwethaf er mwyn…

A launch event for the study, entitled Work, Skills and Well-being in Wales: First Findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2012, took place at Cardiff Universty on the 8th July 2013. The event was chaired by Professor Gareth Rees and included presentations from Scott Waddington, a Commissioner from the UK Commission for Employment and…

Following political devolution in the late 1990s and the establishment of the governments for Wales and Scotland, the education systems of the four home countries of the UK have significantly diverged. Consequently, not only does that mean that education research in the UK has to be sensitive to such divergence, but that the divergence of…

Using mixed methods this paper explores issue salience and the policy framing associated with the substantive representation of ethnic minorities. Its focus is party programmes in Westminster (1964–2010) and Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elections (1998–2011). The analysis reveals a significant increase in issue salience driven by parties of the Left. This applies to both…

This Report is based on survey data collected from two samples of workers: 7,213 workers aged 20-65 years old and living in Britain in 2006 and 3,200 similarly aged workers in 2012. Both surveys were boosted in Wales yielding a total sample of almost1,000 workers in Wales – 407 respondents in 2006 and 587 in…