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Professor Chris Taylor’s is interviewed by TES Cyrmu following his Assembly Briefing on the Millennium Cohort Study. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/academic-rejects-schooled-fail-theory-2495925

WISERD has secured a £1M investment into the development of education research in Wales with the establishment of WISERD EDUCATION. This Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) funded project has the potential to change the landscape of education research in Wales and will put Wales at the forefront of research capacity building developments in…

Professor Gareth Rees, Director of the Wales Institute of Social Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD), has recently commented in the Western Mail on this year’s GCSE exam figures. The figures, released last week, show that 70.8% of Welsh pupils achieved the Level 2 threshold overall this summer, up from 67.3% last year. The proportion of…

The Call for Papers for the fourth annual WISERD conference is now open. The WISERD 2013 Conference will take place on 25th and 26th June at the University of Glamorgan, attracting colleagues from academic, policy, public, private and third sectors. Following on from three successful events in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor; the WISERD conference has become…

WISERD has successfully secured a £1m investment into the development of education research in Wales with the establishment of WISERDEDUCATION. The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) funded programme has the potential to change the landscape of education research in Wales and will put Wales at the forefront of research capacity building developments in…

Professor Gareth Rees is interviewed about the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification on BBC Radio Wales.

Cardiff School of Social Sciences has officially launched the European Commission funded NESET website – NESETweb – a Europe-wide online resource aimed at supporting the development of better and fairer education across the European Union. NESET, which stands for the Network of Experts on Social aspects of Education and Training, has launched the website to…

One of the most important events in the social science calendar for people concerned with social and economic issues in Wales is travelling to Bangor next week. The third annual Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods’ (WISERD) Conference will bring together social science researchers, politicians, postgraduate students and public sector representatives…

Professor Gareth Rees has offered his expertise to an article this week (March 12th, p.4) about the next Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) results in November. The article leads on Education Minster Leighton Andrews’ comments that he doesn’t expect Wales to show ‘real improvement’ in the school rankings because the Welsh Government’s new education…

WISERD are supporting two ESRC PhD awards as part of 11 fully-funded studentships with the Cardiff School of Social Sciences and the Doctoral Training Centre for Wales. Both studentships for the 2012/13 academic year will be in the field of education. The first topic will examine adult community learning participation and involvement in schooling and the second…