We have published a new guide to good practice, which looks at being open and honest as an education professional.
This adds to our suite of good practice guides, which supports the EWC’s Code of Professional Conduct and Practice.
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We're pleased to announce that three programmes of initial teacher education (ITE) submitted by CaBan Bangor have gained accreditation from our ITE Accreditation Board.
Following a rigorous assessment by the Board in October, the programmes have been accredited for a period of five years, subject to conditions.
The programmes which are due to run from September 2021 are:
- BA Primary
- PGCE primary
- PGCE secondary
At the moment CaBan Chester (Caer) / Bangor North Wales Partnership runs programmes for ITE students from Bangor University and the University of Chester. The accreditation period for these expires in August 2021.
Although the partnership has been beneficial to both universities involved, the University of Chester has not applied for accreditation with Bangor University this time.
All programmes of ITE submitted by partnerships in Wales are assessed, evaluated, and monitored against criteria set by the Welsh Government.
We recently published our Welsh Language Standards monitoring report for 2019-20 .
The report sets out our compliance with the standards, which cover service delivery, operational, policy making, and record keeping.
In the report, we detail how we've championed the use of the Welsh language, both amongst our own employees and in engaging with registrants and other external stakeholders.
As an organisation, we’re committed to implementing and maintaining a fully bilingual service for all those who come into contact with us. We encourage users to make use of this service by:
- writing to us in Welsh, be that through social media or e-mail
- accessing our website, e-services and the PLP through the medium of Welsh
- submitting any forms to us in Welsh
- accessing our training and presentations through the medium of Welsh.
Under normal circumstances, we also provide a bilingual telephone service. We hope to restore this service in the coming weeks.
If you have any comments or suggestions about our bilingual provision and our approach to the Welsh language, please feel free to
We’ve published our latest statistics on the education workforce in Wales today.
The Annual education workforce statistics for Wales 2020 represents our most comprehensive set of data to date for over 80,000 registered practitioners across schools, further education (FE), work-based learning and youth work settings in Wales.
Based on information taken from the EWC’s Register of Education Practitioners, the publication includes statistics which highlight categories, such as age, ethnicity, and gender, as well as qualifications and subjects. This edition sees data on the ethnicity, nationality and Welsh language ability of school learning support workers and youth work practitioners for the first time.
Read the Annual education workforce statistics for Wales 2020.
We’re pleased to announce exciting updates to the Professional Learning Passport (PLP), which have been designed to better support education practitioners in Wales in using their professional standards.
Based on user feedback, we’ve developed new interactive tools for the PLP which enable practitioners to self-assess their progress against their professional standards. They will also get an at a glance overview of their progress against the standards which will help them to identify their areas of strength and development.
The PLP provides practitioners with a place to record and reflect on their practice and learning in the context of the following professional standards:
- teaching (school)
- assisting teaching (school)
- leadership (school)
- further education and work-based learning
For more information about the new tool, read our blog.
Not started using your PLP yet? Our short guide will help you in setting up your account.