Elin Jones: The first item on our agenda this afternoon is questions to the Minister for Education, and the first question is from Lynne Neagle.
Elin Jones: The next item is a statement by the Minister for Education: curriculum and assessment reform, a White Paper on proposals for legislative change. I call on the Minister for Education, Kirsty Williams.
Elin Jones: ...on cargo ships between Wales and France before returning to London and Liverpool to further her nautical career. She gained her master mariner certificate, and, at the age of 21, she established a school in Ceredigion where she taught seamanship to local young men. In 1865, she became an overnight sensation as the first woman ever to win a poetry prize at the National Eisteddfod, beating...
Elin Jones: And the first item on our agenda this afternoon is questions to the Minister for Education, and the first question is from Mandy Jones.
Elin Jones: ...the House of Commons. Who was Millicent Mackenzie, the first ever woman to stand for election in Wales? In addition to being a candidate in that election, Millicent Mackenzie was a professor of education at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, as Cardiff University was then known. She was the first female professor in any UK chartered university. She was a highly...
Elin Jones: ...people are registered for the next election. Turnout is something that we also want to work on for the next election. It was an electronic election, but there were some opportunities for within-school voting as well, and that proved to be particularly useful in terms of ensuring that there was turnout. We will have learnt a great deal in how we ran this election, and we can review that and...
Elin Jones: ...our jobs. We need to watch our backs; we’ve got young people now wanting to become parliamentarians of the future, and I think that that’s great. To respond to the issue about engaging with all schools, all young people, in Wales, I think there was a huge amount done to engage with as many young people as possible in the short period of time we had in the run-up to this first-ever...
Elin Jones: The next item is the topical questions. The first question is to be asked to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and the question comes from Suzy Davies.
Elin Jones: ..., I’m pleased to announce that this place is about to become home to a second exciting senedd—our first ever Youth Parliament. This is the conclusion of many months of work by organisations, schools and the dedicated Youth Parliament team at the Assembly. We are very much indebted to everyone who ensured that this project has come to fruition. Over 450 young candidates, almost 25,000...
Elin Jones: That brings us to voting time. Unless three Members wish for the bell to be rung, I will move immediately to voting time. The first vote is on the Member debate on further education funding. I call for a vote on the motion, tabled in the name of Bethan Sayed. Open the vote. Close the vote. In favour 22, three abstentions, 21 against, and, therefore, the motion is agreed.
Elin Jones: I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams.
Elin Jones: That brings us to our next item, which is a debate on the petition 'Presumption in Favour of Rural Schools'. I call on the Chair of the committee to move the motion. David Rowlands.
Elin Jones: The first item on our agenda is questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and the first question is from Joyce Watson.
Elin Jones: The next item, therefore, is a statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education on international student mobility. I call on the Cabinet Secretary to make the statement. Kirsty Williams.
Elin Jones: The next item, therefore, is a statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education on valuing our teachers—investing in their excellence. I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Education to make the statement—Kirsty Williams.
Elin Jones: That brings us to the debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee report on targeted funding to improve educational outcomes. I call on the Chair of the committee to move the motion—Lynne Neagle.
Elin Jones: The first item on our agenda this afternoon is questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and the first question is from Jenny Rathbone.
Elin Jones: Voting time now proceeds. Unless three Members wish for the bell to be rung, I will proceed directly to the vote. The first vote is on the Welsh Conservatives’ debate on school standards. I call, therefore, for a vote on the motion tabled in the name of Paul Davies. Open the vote. Close the vote. In favour 16, no abstentions, 35 against, therefore the motion is not agreed.
Elin Jones: The first item on our agenda this afternoon is questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and the first question is from Vikki Howells.
Elin Jones: The first item on our agenda is questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and Dawn Bowden has the first question.
