Blog by Maya Richardson, 20/11/2023 On the 34th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), we reflect on the importance of children’s rights as a cross-cutting concern in research and...
In her foreward to One language for all, Professor Sioned Davies issued a dire warning: “It is undeniably the eleventh hour for Welsh second language” (2013). Her prognosis followed years of damning reports that identified serious failings in the way that Welsh is...
Introduction If Virginia Woolf were still alive in the time of Covid-19 she’d probably have a lot to say. Many of us have experienced varying levels of restrictions on our space to work, to study, and to think clearly beyond the immediate stresses brought on by the...
Growing up in rural South Wales, I, like so many of my peers, accepted the inevitable. The only way to move forward as a young person was surely to leave the countryside behind and make the move to somewhere better connected. I left the sleepy, buses-come-once-an-hour...
If you have ever watched the movie Surrogates - featuring Bruce Willis - you are captured by a world where people live from the comfort of their homes, whilst robotic representations of themselves – known as surrogates – conduct people’s day to day responsibilities,...
Every three years, the OECD undertake an evaluation of educational systems – the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). High school students from 72 countries participate in reading, maths, and science tests. In this evaluation, Wales consistently...