Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 17 October 2018.
Thank you. You're absolutely right: it was the Welsh Government who commissioned that report by Estyn, of course, because we were concerned that, perhaps, in relation to the higher apprenticeship framework, we weren't getting the kinds of results that we'd hoped for. So, that's why we commissioned the report. We're obviously taking the recommendations in that report very seriously. We are working with Qualifications Wales to make sure that they understand there's a need to drive up standards, and a lot of this is about making sure that we communicate and we work with the appropriate sectors to make sure that we are responding to the needs of what businesses want, so that the curriculum needs to really address the issues that need to work in a concrete way, in a practical way, in the workplace.