Minister for Education Kirsty Williams Discusses the Education Reforms in Wales

Well, this isn’t quite what we expected when we set up the podcast in summer 2018... shortly after the release of episode 16, in which our lovely students discussed a talk by the education minister, we received a message from the minister’s office suggesting that we might be able to get an interview with Kirsty Williams herself!

It’s a big moment for Welsh education, as the draft curriculum has been published and opened up for feedback from the education world at large. As part of launching the new draft curriculum into the world, the minister visited Cardiff Met with some of the orchestrators of the new curriculum to present and take questions.

This episode consists of Kirsty Williams’s speech, an exclusive interview by Emma and Tom with the minister, and a short reaction piece by four PGCE students who were present at the event.

Those of us present at the event also heard words of wisdom from Ty Golding, Head of Curriculum Design and Development at the Welsh Government, and Cat Kucia, headteacher of Jubilee Park Primary School in Newport, and we reference one or two of their points during the discussion. We hope to be speaking to one or both of them in future episodes.

If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, review and spread the word. We’ll be back in a fortnight, when we’ll be talking to our friends from Teach First Cymru.

• 04:10 - Kirsty Williams Speech
• 13:54 - Kirsty Williams Interview
• 31:57 - Student discussion
• 40:07 - Wellbeing, Something to Try, Shoutout

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This episode was recorded in C2.14 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 2nd May 2019