Huw Irranca-Davies: ...my left about bringing this forward in a timely way is also well made. I congratulate her on the amazing serendipity of the timing as well, and her shameless plug of the cross-party group on higher education that is, indeed, tonight meeting with Professor Sir Ian Diamond, and we can discuss this further. This is an issue of having fairness and sustainability at the heart of our higher...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Coleg Cymunedol y Dderwen in my constituency in Ynysawdre was put under Schools Challenge Cymru in 2015. In a remarkably short time, under a new executive headteacher, Nick Brain, with strong leadership right throughout the school, not only with Nick, but throughout the school now, under Schools Challenge Cymru, this year it had a record-breaking year of GCSE results: 93 per cent of students...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...What defines it is not just the deciduous woodland planting and the orchards and the natural beauty, but the fact that it is in one of the areas where the most targeted interventions in health and education and other matters are going on. Isn’t it right that the woodland action plan, together with the well-being of future generations Act, means that we need to see the right trees in the...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Could I draw the attention of the Minister to Bridgend College, which was ranked last year top amongst our further education institutions in Wales on student health and well-being, help and support, information and advice, and responsiveness? But as well as excellent student satisfaction and excellent academic routes, it also helps deliver quality apprenticeships in collaboration with local...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...Start, apprenticeship schemes—although how we are going to sustain the funding for them now with our decision in recent days, I don’t know—with things like the Sony concept there, bringing schools and young people in to teach them about digital industries, driven by the private sector down in Pencoed—how do we build on those sorts of things, and will he be engaging directly with...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Maesteg high school, Coleg Cymunedol y Dderwen, Ogmore Vale Primary School—
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...of increasing pressure on squeezed budgets, can I commend the continued leadership of Welsh Government and that of local authorities like Bridgend, and Cabinet member Huw David, in investing in our schools and investing in the future of our young people?