You are right: quality of teaching is key to tackling this agenda, and it will be the main focus of the work of the network of excellence. I am currently reviewing the graduate incentives that we have available to attract people into the teaching profession, as well as looking at whether we can refresh our graduate entry programme, so that people who perhaps have had a career in science, or technology, who would then want to move into teaching at a later date. So those are currently being reviewed at the moment, so that we can do what we can to attract our best science graduates into a career in teaching.

This is an issue that needs to be tackled, and it can be particularly acute through the medium of Welsh, as well as individual science subjects, and that then precludes the opportunity for students who want to study science through the medium of Welsh from being able to study three separate sciences, rather than being told they only have to do double-award science. It’s one of the issues we have to tackle, but it is an important one.