Sef Initiative a Distinctly Welsh Way of Tackling Challenges of Major Educational Change ; How Significant Is the School Effectiveness Framework? According to Uwic's Professor David Egan, Who Helped to Develop the Initiative, It Is Likely to Be 'Momentous' for the Future of Education in Wales. The Former Special Adviser for Education to the Welsh Assembly Government Gives the Western Mail His View On the Initiative

Western Mail › July 09, 2009

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SINCE the arrival of devolution a decade ago, there is much to be proud of in the way that education has developed in Wales. The Foundation Phase for our youngest children and the Welsh Baccalaureate developed for our 14 to 19-year-olds are just two examples of the distinctive agenda that has emerged in Wales and that has attracted international attention.

Of course, not everything in the educational garden in Wales is rosy!

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Sef Initiative a Distinctly Welsh Way of Tackling Challenges of Major Educational Change ; How Significant Is the School Effectiveness Framework? According to Uwic's Professor David Egan, Who Helped to Develop the Initiative, It Is Likely to Be 'Momentous' for the Future of Education in Wales. The Former Special Adviser for Education to the Welsh Assembly Government Gives the Western Mail His View On the Initiative

Although there has been considerable improvement in the achievement of our schools, as the outcomes of the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2007 revealed, Wal...

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