<p>Secondary Education in Pembrokeshire</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 2 November 2016.

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Photo of Mr Simon Thomas Mr Simon Thomas Plaid Cymru 1:33, 2 November 2016

Both questions do throw up an interesting conundrum, I think—both the saga that’s happened in Haverfordwest and Eluned Morgan’s question. And it is a difficult task, because what’s likely to happen now in Pembrokeshire is we’re likely to have some 11-16 schools, some schools with sixth forms and some provision in further education college but in a separate sixth form provision in that FE college. And it just seems that it is a piecemeal approach that we are taking, in a small nation of 3 million people, allowing these local solutions that, on the face of it, appear to be wonderful, but are they actually delivering the highest educational standards? And that’s where Welsh Government comes in. So, has she been able to form a view yet as to whether the best provision of post-16 education is through a school-based campus approach or through an FE-college-based approach?