Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 2 November 2016.
I would remind the UKIP Member that I have not been the Cabinet Secretary for 17 years, but I don’t believe that anybody in this Chamber, even those of us who have been here since the start, would agree that Welsh education is where we would want it to be. We can, and we must, do better. My invitation to ask the OECD to come and test the proposals that I have for driving up standards in Welsh schools is not an admission of failure; it is an admission of confidence that I believe that we’re on the right track and that things are getting better in Welsh education, but I want to test that against the very best international standards.