Guest Speaker 7- Jane Davidson

Today's what is education module? was taken by Jane Davidson who was the Education Minister in Wales for 7years, dealing with skills for life-long learning. To begin with she told us all about the background to education starting with the year of 1983 when the National Curriculum was introduced. She later when on to describe the year of 1997 where labor came into Government and the Weslh Assembly Government was established in 1999. For the remains of the lecture she talked to us about the books "the learning country" which was published in 2001 and "the learning country-vision into action" which was later published in 2006. We looked at things like the goals, policies and principles these documents were setting out.