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WISERD Education Data Lab

Start date:
March 2019  
Status:
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The WISERD Education Data Lab uses adminstrative data and advanced statistical methods to quantify trends in educational outcomes across Wales.

Projects:

  • Participation in and Progression Through Education in Wales
  • A Geospatial Analysis of the Factors Shaping Educational Outcomes in Wales
  • Does timing matter? Exploring the timing and impact of receiving Additional Learning Needs support on educational outcomes

 

Research team

WISERD Education Data Lab
Alexandra Sandu
Research Assistant
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Catherine Foster
Research Associate
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Chris Taylor
Academic Director, SPARK
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Foteini Tseliou
Research Associate
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Jennifer Keating
Research Associate
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Jennifer May Hampton
Research Associate
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Martijn Hogerbrugge
Research Associate
Cardiff University
WISERD Education Data Lab
Robert French
Research Fellow, WISERD Education Data Lab
Cardiff University
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Journal Articles
Classroom exclusions: patterns, practices, and pupil perceptions

This paper examines the under-researched phenomenon of classroom exclusions and their implications for school exclusions. Responses from nearly 1500 secondary school pupils indicate that being expelled from the classroom is a common phenomenon. On average, one-third of pupils have been asked to leave the classroom at some point in the previous year. However, it is…

Education, Inequalities | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education | September 2022
Front page of Data Insight by Alexandra Sandu and Jennifer May Hampton
Reports and Briefings
Engagement with the Hwb virtual learning environment during Covid-19 school closures

This Data Insight outlines preliminary findings on engagement with the Hwb virtual learning environment by pupils in primary, secondary and special school sectors during the academic year 2019/2020.

Data & Methods, Education, Inequalities | WISERD Education Data Lab | August 2022
The Curriculum Journal 31(2)
Journal Articles
Re-educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

This Special Issue explores the many issues that arise when a country decides to rewrite the school curriculum––and particularly when that rewriting entails a radical departure from a conventional subject-based approach.

Education, Localities | Successful Futures for all | May 2020
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‘Successful futures’ for all in Wales? The challenges of curriculum reform for addressing educational inequalities

This paper focuses on the implications of the transformative student‐centred curriculum being developed in Wales for tackling educational inequalities. Informed by long‐standing debates within the sociology of education about the role of school knowledge in social and cultural reproduction, our research outlines some of the challenges that those implementing the new Curriculum for Wales need…

Education, Inequalities | Successful Futures for all | March 2020
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The rationale for subsidiarity as a principle applied within curriculum reform and its unintended consequences

Following trends across the developed world to devolve power and responsibility for public services to more local agencies, curriculum reforms in several countries have been characterised by policies designed to increase teacher agency and professionalism as a means of achieving successful change. In Wales, this approach has been promoted through adoption of a principle of…

Education | Successful Futures for all | February 2020
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Reports and Briefings
Successful futures for all: Explorations of curriculum reform

Executive summary Aims There were two aims to the programme of research: the first relating to the need to identify emergent issues in the development of the curriculum as they relate to disadvantage; the second related to the need to build education research capacity in Wales. Research programme In order to meet both of the…

Education | Successful Futures for all | July 2019
Successful Futures Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales, welsh cover
Reports and Briefings
Successful Futures Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales (The Donaldson Review)

Since devolution, the Welsh Government has implemented a range of progressive curriculum reforms that have sought to foster enthusiasm for learning, to develop key academic skills and competencies and to promote a strong sense of citizenship. The Welsh Government has now committed itself to a fundamental and independent review of the national curriculum and assessment…

Civil Society, Education, Localities | Successful Futures for all | January 2015
Blog
From exclusion to inclusion: the urgent need for better support in schools
15th April 2025 | Chris Taylor, Jemma Bridgeman

On 4th March, WISERD researchers Jemma Bridgeman and Chris Taylor led a webinar for practitioners on the Excluded Lives project, for Cardiff Council. The Excluded Lives project examined school exclusion across the UK and uncovered informal practices, systemic challenges, and school staff trying to support pupils with complex needs. The data showed a picture of…

Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Excluded Lives
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Exploring international collaboration in child health and education research
19th December 2024 | Robert French

Rob French leads the ADR Wales Education research theme. In this blog post, Rob describes how the intersection of education and child health data will be explored in a new special edition of the International Journal of Population Data Science. Linking child health and education data enables us to explore the mutual dependence of these two critical…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | ADR Wales, WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Festival of Social Sciences workshops to support children with additional learning needs
19th December 2024 | Jennifer Keating

Jen Keating is a Research Associate from the ADR Wales Education theme and the WISERD Education Data Lab. In a new blog post, she describes two workshops she led in November for parents, carers, and educators on how they can best use national data to support children with additional learning needs (ALN) in Wales. These workshops took place at…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | ADR Wales, WISERD Education Data Lab
News
WISERD research presented to Welsh Government Minister
4th December 2024 | Jemma Bridgeman, Jennifer Keating, Katy Huxley

Sarah Murphy MS, the Welsh Government Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing recently visited sbarc|spark to gather the latest research insights. WISERD researchers presented findings on how parents of neurodivergent children experience the school exclusion process and how we can use administrative data to improve education outcomes for children with additional learning needs. Excluded Lives…

Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | ADR Wales, Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Exploring a rights-based approach to school exclusion in Wales
8th November 2024 | Jemma Bridgeman

At the recent WISERD Annual Conference, I gave a seminar with partners from civil society on school exclusion in Wales. The seminar explored the role of civil society in school exclusion and how families experience it. Below, I have included a summary of each presentation and a key takeaway for improving policy or practice. Excluded…

Civil Society, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | Excluded Lives
News
Cardiff is UK’s first UNICEF Child Friendly City
27th October 2023 | Alexandra Sandu, Chris Taylor, Ian Thomas, Jennifer Keating, Katy Huxley, Kelly Regan, Laura Arman, Rhian Barrance, Rhys Davies, Robert French, Sally Power, Zoe Rozelaar

A wealth of social science research expertise has helped Cardiff become the UK’s first UNICEF Child Friendly City (CFC). The prestigious status has been awarded to the city in recognition of the steps Cardiff Council and its partners, including Cardiff University, have taken over the past five years to advance the human rights of children…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | ADR Wales, WISERD Education, WISERD Education Data Lab, WISERD Education Multi Cohort Study
Blog
Welsh children’s subjective well-being during the pandemic ranks below average in international survey
2nd June 2023 | Alexandra Sandu

In my previous Children’s Worlds project blog posts, we looked at the impact of the pandemic on Welsh children’s well-being in relation to school and whether they live in urban or rural areas of Wales. For this third and final instalment, we now turn our attention to how the overall level of subjective well-being for…

Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | WISERD Education Data Lab
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Welsh children less satisfied with school during the pandemic than before it
19th April 2023 | Alexandra Sandu

This blog post is the second part of a series presenting preliminary findings on children’s well-being in Wales before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. It uses data from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCWeB) – Children’s Worlds, a worldwide survey on children’s subjective well-being, with this wave comprising 20 countries in total. The survey…

Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | WISERD Education Data Lab
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International survey sees Welsh children in urban areas report decrease in overall well-being during pandemic
9th February 2023 | Alexandra Sandu

There is no denying that the disruption to daily life caused by the coronavirus pandemic had a profound influence on children’s well-being, with various international organisations (eg, WHO, UNESCO, WFP, UNICEF) requesting that more be done to assist children in coping with this, to  avoid long-term negative consequences. In Wales, data from the 2021 International…

Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | WISERD Education Data Lab
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Reasons for school exclusions in Wales
29th September 2022 | Foteini Tseliou

Pupils might be excluded for a wide range of reasons, from minor breaches such as disruptive behaviour to severe, such as violent behaviour towards others. Exclusion should be implemented as the result of accumulation of many misdemeanours rather than as the school’s first route of action. Although most pupils who are excluded return to school,…

Data & Methods, Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
News
Engagement with the Hwb virtual learning environment during Covid-19 school closures
23rd August 2022 | Alexandra Sandu, Jennifer May Hampton

A new Data Insight from Dr Alexandra Sandu and Dr Jennifer May Hampton from the WISERD Education Data Lab and produced by the ADR Wales education research team is now available: Engagement with the Hwb virtual learning environment during Covid-19 school closures. This report outlines preliminary findings on engagement with the Hwb virtual learning environment…

Data & Methods, Education, Inequalities | WISERD Education Data Lab
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Exploring the links between school exclusion and youth homelessness
23rd July 2022 | Jemma Bridgeman

  The Excluded Lives project aims to understand the contextual and institutional processes that lead to different types of formal and informal school exclusion and the consequences for excluded young people, their families, schools, and other professionals across the UK. Jemma Bridgeman from the Excluded Lives team at Cardiff University teamed up with Monika Conti…

Inequalities | Excluded Lives
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The more types of special education needs a pupil has, the more at risk of exclusion they are
22nd April 2022 | Foteini Tseliou

The presence of special education needs (SEN) and variations in school-level provision can cause disruptions in a pupil’s educational journey, especially when that child’s needs change as they progress through key stages. This may especially be the case when pupils have multiple needs, including mental health and communication difficulties. Furthermore, gaps between the time of…

Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
Media
Concerns over children missing from classrooms
11th March 2022 | Chris Taylor

Professor Chris Taylor, academic director of sbarc I spark at Cardiff University, is quoted in today’s Western Mail and South Wales Echo as saying children and parents may feel school is “optional”, especially on Fridays, following two years of pandemic disruption. Read the article at WalesOnline.

Education | WISERD Education, WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Complex special education needs – type and timing are important factors
31st January 2022 | Foteini Tseliou

Characteristics closely linked to educational outcomes can vary by individual pupils’ situations and can be the result of a complex interplay between a number of risk factors. For example, being classified as having a disability such as communication difficulties, and experiencing behavioural and mental health problems can increase the risk of losing school days, which…

Data & Methods, Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
How special education needs change over time
20th October 2021 | Foteini Tseliou

Pupil needs can vary significantly and might require for the provision of individually tailored special education and/or additional support. Special education needs (SEN) have been linked with a number of adverse outcomes including poor mental health and loss of school days, which in turn can lead to deterioration of mental health, highlighting the need to…

Data & Methods, Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
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Special education needs of excluded children in Wales
5th August 2021 | Foteini Tseliou

Pupils differ significantly in terms of their individual characteristics and needs. It’s therefore important for schools to be able to identify and assess the level of need/disability, and provide for pupils with learning difficulties that call for special education provision, described as special education needs (SEN). Under the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales)…

Data & Methods, Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Area level variations of school exclusions across Wales
23rd June 2021 | Foteini Tseliou

School practices on discipline and punishment of disruptive behaviour can affect the exclusion rates being recorded and they have been shown to vary across different jurisdictions of the UK. These practices could be closely linked to and shaped by pupil-level characteristics and needs, including free school meals (FSM) eligibility and special education needs (SEN) provision…

Data & Methods, Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
News
WISERD Director elected to BERA Council
11th June 2021 | Sally Power

WISERD Director, Professor Sally Power, has been elected to sit on the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Council. BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement. They aim to inform the development of policy and practice by promoting the best quality evidence produced…

Education | Successful Futures for all
Blog
Characteristics of excluded children in Wales
13th May 2021 | Foteini Tseliou

Annual official reports published by the Welsh Government primarily focus on exclusion instances; their yearly trends and variations by key characteristics, such as ethnicity and reason for exclusion. However, there is a need to expand this analysis by focusing on excluded individuals and the potential consequences of school exclusions on pupil outcomes. This would be…

Civil Society, Data & Methods | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
School exclusions in Wales on the rise
7th May 2021 | Foteini Tseliou

There is evidence to suggest that school exclusions can have negative effects on children’s lives. Exclusions have been associated with poor educational outcomes, and long-term physical and mental health problems. We need to investigate how patterns of exclusions and characteristics of excluded pupils differ across time and can help to inform current understanding of possible…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education Data Lab
Media
Covid: Schools warned against overloading pupils
18th March 2021 | Catherine Foster

Cardiff University researcher Dr Catherine Foster (WISERD) said children from disadvantaged backgrounds more likely to have fallen behind while learning from home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56423630

Civil Society, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab, WISERD Education Multi Cohort Study
Media
The true impact of the coronavirus on a generation of Welsh children
10th March 2021 | Catherine Foster, Jennifer May Hampton

On an Wales Online interview, Dr Catherine Foster said life had “changed dramatically” for many young people who suffered from effects such as loneliness and loss of routine. She said: “Although some children have been able to continue going to school at least part of the time, most have lost the organization and structure that…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab, WISERD Education Multi Cohort Study
Media
Qualifications and assessment
2nd October 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

The Welsh Government was forced to backtrack on the grading method agreed with regulator Qualifications Wales after an outcry over students being downgraded led to a u-turn in Scotland and changes in England. An 11th hour review took place to ensure that students didn’t lose out in Wales after England and Scotland announced major concessions….

Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Media
Children’s Worlds
2nd October 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

Children in Wales have some of the lowest levels of well-being amongst children across 35 countries, a team of WISERD researchers has found. Survey of 128,000 children across 35 countries raises questions about levels of well-being experienced across different areas of children’s lives in Wales. Read the coverage for this research study: Children in Wales…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | WISERD Education Data Lab
News
A recent report from WISERD Education Data Lab analyses the impact of Hafan Cymru’s Spectrum Project
1st October 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

The Spectrum Project is a specialist awareness-raising, preventative and bilingual educational programme, delivering sessions on all aspects of Healthy Relationships and VAWDASV (Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence) to pupils and staff in schools across Wales. It links with the priorities of Prevention, Protection and Support outlined in the Violence Against Women, Domestic…

Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
COVID-19, home learning and educational inequalities
30th September 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

As children across Wales and the rest of the UK have returned to school after an unprecedented length of time off, the focus on how to keep both children and staff safe has been of paramount importance for parents, teachers, and policy makers.   Attention must also be paid to the potentially unequal consequences that…

Civil Society, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
News
International study reveals low levels of well-being amongst children in Wales
20th August 2020 | Chris Taylor, Jennifer May Hampton, Sally Power

Survey of 128,000 children across 35 countries raises questions about levels of well-being experienced across different areas of children’s lives in Wales. Children in Wales have some of the lowest levels of well-being amongst children across 35 countries, a team of WISERD researchers has found. The team surveyed over 2,600 children from across Wales about…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Well-being of school children in Wales: European comparisons
20th August 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

Recent results from the Children’s Worlds study revealed that children in Wales have some of the lowest levels of well-being amongst children surveyed in 35 countries. Children’s Worlds is an international study of children’s subjective well-being, with the third and most recent survey including over 128,000 children, surveyed between 2016 – 2019. This is the…

Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Well-being of school children in Wales: bullying
20th August 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

As the start of another school year approaches, amongst the many challenges that providing a COVID-safe educational environment poses, reintegrating learners into a safe and secure learning environment will be key. Concerns have rightly been raised about young people’s mental health and welfare during these unprecedented times. Our research with children and young people as…

Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
GCSE results day 2020
20th August 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

Today sees the release of GCSE results for pupils across the UK. The last-minute changes to the awarding of A level grades last week saw similar changes made to the awarding of GCSE results. Pupils will now receive the centre assessment grade, provided by their school, if it was higher than the calculated grade, produced…

Data & Methods, Education, Inequalities | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
A level results day 2020
13th August 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

In the shadow of the fallout from the qualifications results announced for young people in Scotland earlier this month, and last-minute amendments made by the Welsh and English governments to the awarding of grades, this blog reflects on the steps taken to calculate grades, necessitated by these unprecedented times. Detailed information is now publicly available…

Civil Society, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
COVID-19 and the uncertainty for new Welsh undergraduates
6th July 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

Note: This blog has been updated on 28 July to include Student Loan Company data to the end of June 2020. There has been much discussion, forecasting and concern around the impact of COVID-19 on the higher education sector. With many universities beginning to slowly lay out their intended teaching and learning practices for the…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
News
WISERD Education Data Lab launches blog series
6th July 2020 | WISERD

The newly established WISERD Education Data Lab has launched a series of blog posts to share its latest analysis with a wider audience. The lab aims to generate high quality research-based evidence using education administrative data to support the Wales education sector. In order to undertake this work, the WISERD Education Data Lab is using administrative data…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Patterns of school non-attendance over the educational lifecourse
26th June 2020 | Ian Thomas

This blog outlines preliminary findings from a larger WISERD Education Data Lab project exploring non-attendance and school exclusions. Here we draw on annual attendance data and pupil level data. We explore the total number of school sessions missed by a cohort of young people over an 11-year period, from age 5 years old (Year 1)…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Early GCSE entry: multiple entry
26th June 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

A previous blog introduced the context and patterns of early entries to GCSEs in Wales. This blog builds on this to examine the practice of multiple entry and the effect that this has on grades. Using national data of all pupils in Wales who completed Year 11 between 2006 and 2018, we distinguished between pupils…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Early GCSE entry: patterns over time
26th June 2020 | Jennifer May Hampton

GCSE entry practices in Wales have meant that many pupils may have sat their GCSE examinations, and thereby certified, before the traditional end-of-Year-11 point of their academic career. Not only have some pupils experienced early entry, some have been entered multiple times in order to maximise the final grade achieved. Influences on the practice of…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
An introduction to the WISERD Education Data Lab
26th June 2020 | Martijn Hogerbrugge

By generating high quality research-based evidence, the newly established WISERD Education Data Lab aims to help inform and challenge our understanding of educational processes and outcomes and to support the Wales education sector to meet the aims set out by the Welsh Government in their national mission for 2017-2021. In order to undertake this work,…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education | WISERD Education Data Lab
Blog
Curriculum reform and inequality: The challenges facing Wales
3rd June 2020 | Chris Taylor, Nigel Newton, Sally Power

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new Curriculum for Wales, based on the Successful futures for all review by Graham Donaldson (2015), entails a radical move away from the traditional…

Education | Successful Futures for all, WISERD Education
News
Findings from ‘Successful Futures for All’ presented at Senedd
15th November 2019 | Nigel Newton

This week, Dr Nigel Newton presented findings from our ‘Successful Futures for All’ project to members of the Children, Young People and Education Committee of the National Assembly for Wales. The project explores the way the new curriculum is being developed in Pioneer Schools and the potential impact on children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Curriculum for…

Education, Inequalities | Successful Futures for all
News
£2.55m funding boost for research into impact of UK school exclusions
2nd October 2019 | Chris Taylor, Sally Power

New ESRC grant will see first-time multi-disciplinary research conducted on consequences of school exclusions across the UK, led by the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. Professors Sally Power and Chris Taylor are part of a team of researchers operating across Oxford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Reading and the London School of Economics (LSE)…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Localities | Excluded Lives, WISERD Education, WISERD Education Data Lab
Media
Dr Nigel Newton talks about closing the attainment gap on BBC Radio Wales
17th July 2019 | Nigel Newton

Following on from the previous Eye On Wales programme last month, when Dr Nigel Newton was involved in a discussion which introduced the new education system, Dr Newton now discusses whether or not the new curriculum will help to close the attainment gap. Almost two-thirds of teachers at schools that have trialled Wales’ new curriculum feel it will…

Education | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
Media
New school curriculum ‘could widen achievement gap’ – Dr Nigel Newton featured in BBC news article
17th July 2019 | Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton comments on Wales’ new curriculum in a BBC news article.

Education, Localities | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
Media
Dr Nigel Newton discusses new curriculum for Wales on BBC Radio Wales
26th June 2019 | Nigel Newton

Wales’ education system is about to change. Eye On Wales finds out what’s involved and Dr Nigel Newton takes part in the discussion which introduces the new system (6:27).

Education, Localities | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
Media
Dr Nigel Newton research on the new curriculum in Wales featured in Western Mail
18th April 2019 | Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton writes about new research which suggests the new curriculum in Wales, although more holistic, may mean students miss out on subject knowledge.            

Education | Successful Futures for all
Blog
Hopes and fears: The development of a new curriculum in Wales
16th April 2019 | Nigel Newton

Since 2015, ‘pioneer’ schools across Wales have been contributing to the development of a new national curriculum based on Professor Graham Donaldson’s (2015) report, Successful Futures. As part of a Welsh government-funded research project being conducted through the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD),*  over 30 teachers involved in this…

Education, Localities | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
News
WISERD presents latest research on curriculum reform in Wales
8th February 2019 | Chris Taylor, Nigel Newton

    WISERD Co-Director, Professor Chris Taylor and Dr Nigel Newton presented at an education event sponsored by WISERD and the Learned Society of Wales this week, where a new report by the Institute of Welsh Affairs on implications of curriculum reform was launched. Following a review undertaken by Professor Graham Donaldson in 2015, the…

Education, Localities | Evaluating the Foundation Phase, Successful Futures for all, WISERD Education
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Pioneers voice their hopes and fears for the new Curriculum for Wales
27th June 2018 | Carmel Conn, Chris Taylor, Helen Lewis, Judith Kneen, Nigel Newton, Owen Davies, Sally Power, Susan Chapman

Wales is in the process of developing a curriculum that is designed to transform the nature of teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools. The ‘Curriculum for wales’ – sometimes referred to simply as ‘Donaldson’ after the person who developed the proposals – is based on ‘ a brand new way of developing a…

Education | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools
Blog
Young people and Brexit: will Brexit spark young people’s interest in devolved Welsh politics?
7th March 2017 | Rhian Barrance

Brexit in Scotland and Wales A majority 64% of young people voted in the UK referendum on EU membership last June, but 70% of them were disappointed. Media coverage brought this disappointment home with wide coverage of the generational divide, depicting a young generation forced to live with the consequences of a decision made by…

Civil Society, Education, Localities | WISERD Education Data Lab, WISERD Education Multi Cohort Study, Young People and Brexit, Young People and the EU Referendum
WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
Online teaching and learning during the Coronavirus pandemic: insights from Hwb
9th November 2021

Presented by Jennifer May Hampton and Alexandra Sandu Alongside many other impacts, the impact of the pandemic on educational practices saw shift towards remote, digital teaching and learning practices. Wales’ Hwb Digital Learning Platform was perfectly poised as a resource to address this unique challenge. The WISERD Education Data Lab had unique access to these…

WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
Exploring trends and longitudinal trajectories of school exclusions among children in mainstream education in Wales
15th June 2021

Presented by Foteini Tseliou School exclusions can have a negative effect on children’s lives, with relevant research highlighting the need to identify how pupil-specific and a school- or area- level differences could shape exclusion practices and educational outcomes across the pupil population of Wales. Although the link between school exclusion and adverse outcomes has been…

WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar
WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar – More able and talented pupils in Wales – an update
12th May 2020 | Online

More able and talented pupils in Wales – an update Presented by Martijn Hoggerbruge Last October, in an introductory seminar some first preliminary findings from the WISERD Education Data Lab on More Able and Talented pupils in Wales were shared. This seminar will provide an update on the topic by including Key Stage 4 (GCSE)…

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
Postponed: WISERD Lunchtime Seminar- Supporting school governors to reflect of their own effectiveness: research findings on the development of a new toolkit
24th March 2020

This Seminar has been postponed, new date TBC Presented by Nigel Newton, WISERD. This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series. If you are an external guest, please contact us (029 2087 9338) to confirm availability of places. For further information please contact WISERD.Events@cardiff.ac.uk

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
The political economy of school exclusions
22nd October 2019 | Cardiff

Presented by Chris Taylor , Cardiff University . This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series. If you are an external guest, please contact us (029 2087 9338) to confirm availability of places. For further information please contact WISERD.Events@cardiff.ac.uk This seminar will be held through the medium of English.

Conference
Common Purposes: Implications of curriculum reform in Wales for Further Education, Higher Education, Business and Skills
7th February 2019 | Eastern High, Eastern Community Campus, Trowbridge Road , Rumney, Cardiff, CF3 1XZ, United Kingdom.

Following a review undertaken by Professor Graham Donaldson in 2015, the Welsh Government is designing a new curriculum for 3-16 year olds. Looking ahead, it is vital that institutions beyond schools are engaged with the development and roll-out of the new curriculum to ensure it is well integrated with other areas of policy and provides…

Themes:
Data & Methods, Education

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