STEM Subjects

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 13 March 2018.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 1:33, 13 March 2018

(Translated)

Of course, one of the problems that makes the situation worse is your Government’s failure to recruit sufficient numbers to teacher training courses for some of these STEM subjects. The recent Estyn report shows that only three quarters of the target for maths and chemistry has been achieved in terms of attracting people to register for teacher training, with two thirds in physics and barely half the target met in terms of those coming to teach biology. So, what hope is there to inspire a new generation from the point of view of STEM subjects when we can’t even recruit the teachers to teach them?