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P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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Meeting: 21/01/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to await the outcomes of Qualifications Wales’ consultation, Qualifications for the Future, and to consider the petition again at that point.


Meeting: 09/07/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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Minutes:

The Committee considered further correspondence from the Minister for Education and from Qualifications Wales, and agreed to:

  • write to Qualifications Wales to set out the Committee’s view that everybody should be able to study all available qualifications in both official languages in Wales;
  • write to the petitioner to encourage them to directly engage with the Qualifications Wales’ consultation on the future shape of 14-16 qualifications before considering the petition again; and
  • await the proposals resulting from the Qualifications Wales’ consultation before considering the petition again.

 


Meeting: 07/05/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered further correspondence on the petition and agreed to write back to Qualifications Wales and the Minister for Education to ask for more information about the steps being taken in relation to securing Welsh and English medium provision from the outset under the new curriculum.


Meeting: 29/01/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered correspondence from the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language Commission and agreed to write to Qualifications Wales and the Minister for Education to share the analysis and information provided by the Welsh Language Commission, and to seek their responses to the specific solutions proposed.

 

 


Meeting: 13/11/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and agreed to:

 

·         write back to question if it is not the Welsh Government’s duty to ensure that there is parity between provision in English and Welsh, given that both languages have official status in Wales; and

·         write to the Welsh Language Commissioner to seek her views on the issues raised by the petition.


Meeting: 25/09/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered correspondence from Qualifications Wales and agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary for Education to share the views expressed by the petitioner and to ask for the Welsh Government’s perspective on the policy outlined by Qualifications Wales in relation to subjects available through the medium of Welsh.

 


Meeting: 17/07/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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Due to time constraints, and to allow the petitioner additional time to provide comments, the Committee agreed to defer consideration of the petition to a future meeting.


Meeting: 15/05/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered the petition and agreed to write to:

  • Qualifications Wales to seek an update on the current position, request information about how many GCSE and A-level subjects are not able to be studied through the medium of Welsh, and ask what support is available to examination boards to encourage them to provide exam papers and supporting materials; and
  • the Cabinet Secretary for Education to ask what support the Welsh Government provides, or would expect Qualifications Wales to provide, to assist examination boards based outside of Wales to provide exam papers and supporting materials through the medium of Welsh.

 


Meeting: 01/05/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee indicated that they would be interested in considering the issues raised by this petition further and agreed to give the petitioner an opportunity to provide his comments in response to the correspondence received, but close the petition at the next meeting if this is not forthcoming.


Meeting: 07/11/2017 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 P-05-783 Ensuring Equality of Curriculum for Welsh Medium Schools e.g. GCSE Psychology

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The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to await the views of the petitioner on the responses received from the Welsh Government and Qualifications Wales before considering further action on the petition.