Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Senedd and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Thursday, 6 February 2025

Meeting time: 09.34 - 13.31
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/14818

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category	Names
Members of the Senedd:	Natasha Asghar MS Cefin Campbell MS Vaughan Gething MS Carolyn Thomas MS
Witnesses:	Simon Pirotte, Medr (Commission for Tertiary Education and Research) James Owen, Medr (Commission for Tertiary Education and Research) Rhian Edwards, Medr (Commission for Tertiary Education and Research) Nerys Bourne, Careers Wales Mark Owen, Careers Wales
Committee Staff:	Tom Lewis-White (Second Clerk) Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk) Lucy Morgan (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 Buffy Williams MS sent her apologies. Under Standing Order 17.22, Carolyn Thomas MS was elected as Temporary Chair.

1.2 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.

1.3 Apologies were received from Buffy Williams MS and Joel James MS, there were no substitutes.

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2 Medr - Annual Scrutiny session

2.1 The Committee scrutinised Medr.

2.2 Medr agreed to provide a note on the number of patent filing rates at Welsh universities.

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3 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 3

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from Medr.

3.2 When published, Medr agreed to submit their statistical analysis of progression from year 11 to different types of tertiary education as evidence to the Committee.

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4 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 4

4.1 The Committee heard evidence from Careers Wales.

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5 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 5

5.1 The Committee heard evidence from Universities Wales and the National Training Federation Wales.

5.2 Universities Wales and the National Training Federation Wales agreed to respond in writing to any questions that the Committee did not have time to ask during the evidence session

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6 Papers to note

6.1 The papers were noted.

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7 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

7.1 The motion was agreed.

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8 Routes into post-16 education and training - consideration of the evidence

8.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous session.

8.2 The Committee agreed to invite a panel of work based training representatives and academic to give evidence on 13 March. It also agree to conduct engagement visits on 20 March, including to a school sixth form and a further education college.

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