30 September 2022

  The Council's Cabinet received an update on proposals to build a new special school in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The school will significantly help relieve existing capacity pressures and prepare for further demand for school places in the future. A report to Monday’s Cabinet meeting presented an updated data set highlighting increasing pressures on four existing…

Qualifications Wales are kicking the can down the road, say Welsh Conservatives   Qualifications Wales has stated that next year’s GCSE and A-Level exams will continue to be graded more generously than before the pandemic, this is despite the UK Government confirming that exam grades in England will return to pre-pandemic levels next summer. Commenting…

Plaid report is “nothing but back-of-the-envelope fantasy figures”     Commenting on Plaid Cymru’s report on independence, Welsh Conservative Leader Andrew RT Davies MS, said: “The report makes some wild predictions on what a future Welsh Government would do if Wales became independent. “In this scenario the Welsh Government would forgo any responsibility in keeping…

On Friday 30 September, Literature Wales announced that the Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in Llanystumdwy is the organisation’s new official headquarters. Literature Wales’ new official home is in Gwynedd, a county rich in culture and the arts. This formal change will see the first of Wales’ national companies* plant their roots in the north, with…