Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:47 pm on 3 October 2017.
First Minister, David Melding is most probably getting annoyed by your performance this afternoon, because it is a very laissez-faire attitude, I have to say. You can’t defend a system that has not—[Interruption.] You cannot defend a system that has not been entering GCSE students for the sciences, and then stand there and try to defend it. I want to have confidence, First Minister, that we will see improvement. I want to see improvement in the Welsh education system. We all want to see that. But we had in the last GCSEs the worst results for 10 years. We’ve got the PISA examinations coming forward now in 2018. I asked you in the first question: where are we going to be? Give us an indicator of where we’re going to be—just give us something to come out of this First Minister’s questions where we can mark your homework as to where science will be in 2018.