• This article provides an overview of education in Wales from early childhood to university and adult skills. Largely state funded and free-at-the-point-of-use...
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    The history of education in Wales spans from the period of Roman rule to the present day. Early forms of formal education were church or privately run...
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  • Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively. For details of education in each country, see: Education in England Education in Northern Ireland Education...
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    of the UK government under Schedule 5 of the Government of Wales Act 2006. Education in Wales "Determination on Members' Pay and Allowances: 2020-2021"...
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    New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and...
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  • schools Further education in Wales comes under the remit of the Welsh Assembly Government. Funding came from Education and Learning Wales from 2000 until...
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  • Primary education in Wales has a similar structure to primary education in England, but teaching of the Welsh language is compulsory and it is used as...
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    operating in Wales, all of which receive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW). Although university status in Wales only requires...
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    education in Wales is the education of medical students and qualified medical doctors in Wales. There are currently two dedicated medical schools in Wales...
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  • learning in Wales, active from 2000 to 2006. ELWa's functions are now exercised by the Assembly Government's Department for Children, Education, Lifelong...
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    Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September...
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  • Secondary education in Wales covers the period between the ages of 11 and 15 by 31 August. In this period a child's education is divided into two main...
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  • arrangement of state-funded secondary education between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative...
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  • school in the 2010s. Scotland has a separate system; see History of education in Scotland, much of the information listed below is relevant to Wales but...
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    Welsh-medium education (Welsh: Addysg cyfrwng Cymraeg) is a form of education in Wales in which pupils are taught primarily through the medium of Welsh...
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    of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales, commonly referred to in Wales as the "Treason of the Blue Books" or "Treachery of...
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    North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI) in 1975. The institute became a full member of the University of Wales in 2004. In 2008 it was...
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    cancelled in 2006, reinstated in March 2010, and withdrawn again in 2012. A distinct education system has developed in Wales. Formal education before the...
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  • is allowed to leave compulsory education in England and Wales as specified under an Education Act. In England and Wales, this age has been raised on several...
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  • Education. Johnson & Wales Business School was founded in September 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island. Founders Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales met...
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    Welsh language (category Languages of Wales)
    natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). It is spoken by smaller numbers of people in Canada...
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    The University of South Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol De Cymru) is a public university in Wales, with campuses in Cardiff, Newport and Pontypridd. It was formed...
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  • needs and disabilities (SEND) in the United Kingdom refers to the education of children who require different education provision to the mainstream system...
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  • social education (PSE) is a component of the state school curriculum in Scotland and Wales. PSE became a statutory requirement in schools in September...
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  • school, secondary school, vocational education, adult, migrant and higher education in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The department was preceded...
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    The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university...
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    Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1990, in preparation for Incorporation. In 1992, the Institute joined the University of Wales as an autonomous body...
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  • A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible...
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  • The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) is the Welsh Government Sponsored Body responsible for funding the higher education sector. It...
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  • includes separate descriptors for higher education (HE) qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and in Scotland for bachelor's degrees and below;...
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