🎨 Subject Collection: Expressive Arts Read a growing collection of Open Access research on Expressive Arts in the Curriculum for Wales, bringing together articles from the Wales Journal of Education and Focus on Practice. 🔹 journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/collecti...

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE: ‘Policy and Professional Development for Generative AI in Welsh Education’ with Stephen Atherton ➡️ Listen: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/

The Focus on Practice collection features shorter articles investigating practice, wherever it takes place. In this collection, we particularly welcome articles by practitioners and early career researchers. 📖 Read: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/issue/25... 📝 Submit: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/site/foc...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE - FOCUS ON PRACTICE Towards consistency: Exploring Welsh-medium and bilingual apprenticeship delivery across a provider network by Jackie Beckett and Julian Ayres ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Towards consistency: Exploring Welsh-medium and bilingual apprenticeship delivery across a provider network

This article reports on a qualitative study conducted within a multi-provider apprenticeship network delivering health and care qualifications across Wales. Despite many apprentices entering with Wels...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE - FOCUS ON PRACTICE Improving Welsh Confidence and Competence through Bilingual Delivery by Amy Lewis ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Improving Welsh Confidence and Competence through Bilingual Delivery

The Welsh Government's ‘Active Offer’ strategy (2022) is aiming to increase the number of Welsh speakers by ensuring that everyone who works in Health and Social Care (H and S Care) has courtesy level...

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📚 Subject Collection: Additional Learning Needs Read a collection of Open Access research on Additional Learning Needs (ALN), bringing together articles from the Wales Journal of Education and Focus on Practice. 🔹 journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/collecti... #AdditionalLearningNeeds #ALN

Exploring the use of text-to-speech technology to support reading comprehension in Welsh: a case study by Sean Howe 📝 FOCUS ON PRACTICE ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Exploring the use of text-to-speech technology to support reading comprehension in Welsh: a case study

Following the disruption to education as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a detrimental impact on Welsh language reading comprehension skills among pupils in one school in South Wa...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE Navigating the swampy lowlands: Higher education staff perspectives on the construction of professional identities through moral education within professional and community-facing degree programmes by Louise Allen-Walker and Daniel Williams ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Navigating the swampy lowlands: Higher education staff perspectives on the construction of professional identities through moral education within professional and community-facing degree programmes

Purpose This research aimed to examine university staff perceptions of moral and ethical training on programmes where graduates will become community facing, such as policing and youth and community w...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE Barriers and solutions to purpose-driven curriculum implementation in Wales by Jane Gatley and Janet Oostendorp-Godfrey Wales Journal of Education 28.1 ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Barriers and solutions to purpose-driven curriculum implementation in Wales

The new Curriculum for Wales is centred around four purposes, which reflect educational values and aims. Complementing the four purposes is an emphasis on teacher autonomy when it comes to curriculum ...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE Parents, Teachers and the Pandemic – Lessons from the COVID experience in Wales for home-school partnerships by Prysor Mason Davies, Jane Waters-Davies, Clive Underwood Wales Journal of Education 28.1 ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Parents, Teachers and the Pandemic – Lessons from the COVID experience in Wales for home-school partnerships

The home-schooling of children during the Covid-19 pandemic shifted the familiar interactions of schools and parents into a new, online reality and forced a reconsideration of accepted and sometimes e...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE Policy and Professional Development for Generative AI in Welsh Education by Stephen Atherton, Panna Karlinger, Cyrus Castle Wales Journal of Education 28.1 ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Policy and Professional Development for Generative AI in Welsh Education

This study examines the policy frameworks, professional development requirements, and institutional structures necessary for effective integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in Welsh education. T...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE A Systematic Review of the Speech, Language and Communication Needs for Children Aged 5–8: Implications for Wales and Beyond by Anwen Rhys Jones, Emma Tiesteel, Catherine Storey Wales Journal of Education 28.1 ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

A Systematic Review of the Speech, Language and Communication Needs for Children Aged 5–8: Implications for Wales and Beyond

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many children lost access to language-rich, non-parental care environments which are critical for early language development. These children are now aged 5-8, in full-tim...

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📣 NEW ISSUE 📣 Wales Journal of Education • Volume 28 • Issue 1 Read Open Access in Welsh and English ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/issue/45...

📝 NEW ARTICLE - FOCUS ON PRACTICE Adapting a Design and Technology project to reflect the changing requirements of working within the Science and Technology AoLE: A case study. by Jonathan David Shergold ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Adapting a Design and Technology project to reflect the changing requirements of working within the Science and Technology AoLE: A case study.

Industry leaders highlight the need for employees who can think beyond the boundaries traditionally imposed by subjects. Numerous countries are introducing some form of interdisciplinary learning and ...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE - FOCUS ON PRACTICE From Insight to Impact: Reflexivity and Reflection in Educational Research by Lisa Kate Formby ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

From Insight to Impact: Reflexivity and Reflection in Educational Research

In this article I explore reflexive and reflective practices in education and research emphasising their distinctions and benefits for professional learning, examining their role in shaping positional...

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📝 NEW ARTICLE - FOCUS ON PRACTICE Staff Perspectives on the Influence of a Minecraft Education Challenge (MEC) on Pupils with Additional Learning Needs: Confidence and Engagement Outcomes by Lucy Elizabeth McDermott ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Staff Perspectives on the Influence of a Minecraft Education Challenge (MEC) on Pupils with Additional Learning Needs: Confidence and Engagement Outcomes

This study examines the influence of a Minecraft Education Challenge on the confidence and engagement of pupils who have Additional Learning Needs (ALN) from the perspective of staff. The findings ind...

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Diolch yn fawr iawn to everyone who attended the launch of 'Twenty-Five Years of Devolved Education in Wales', with editors @andrewjamdavies.bsky.social and @profgaryb.bsky.social! A fascinating evening of conversation inspired by the diverse range of essays in this edited collection 📚️

📒 Subject collection: ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS Read a collection of research articles on the subject of Additional Learning Needs, published Open Access in the Wales Journal of Education. 🔹 journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/collecti...

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE ‘Vulnerable Learner Provision and Engagement in a post-pandemic world: preliminary evidence from a Welsh local authority’ with Alex McInch Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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📢 Open Call for Early Career Researcher Editorial Board Members 📢 The Wales Journal of Education invites applications from Early Career Researchers to join its Editorial Board. Applications must be received by 10th March 2026. To apply: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/site/ope...

🎧 NEW EPISODE - WJE Podcast 🎧 Is resilience training beneficial for teachers on a PGCE? In this episode, Gary Beauchamp speaks with Julian Ayres about his article in the Focus on Practice collection. Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0so8...

🔹 NEW ARTICLE 🔹 Vulnerable Learner Provision and Engagement in a post-pandemic world: preliminary evidence from a Welsh local authority by Alex McInch and David Egan ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Vulnerable Learner Provision and Engagement in a post-pandemic world: preliminary evidence from a Welsh local authority

The purpose of this paper is to present research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Vulnerable Learners in a south Wales local authority, UK. The study looked at the changing nature of the vuln...

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🔹 NEW ARTICLE 🔹 Lessons learnt: Responses to COVID-19 from the Early Years Sector in Wales from 2020 to 2023 by Cathryn Knight, Jacky Tyrie, Ioanna Bakopoulou, Margarida Borras Batalla ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Lessons learnt: Responses to COVID-19 from the Early Years Sector in Wales from 2020 to 2023

The purpose of this study was to understand how early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners in Wales view the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their sector; how these perceptions have ch...

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🔹 NEW ARTICLE - WJE 27.2 🔹 Using Fluency-Building Approach to Increase the Knowledge and Fluency of Signing with Preschool Teachers: A Pilot Study by Angel Jia Yiuen Tan, Bryan Wen Xiao Tang, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, Bethan Mair Williams ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

Using Fluency-Building Approach to Increase the Knowledge and Fluency of Signing with Preschool Teachers: A Pilot Study

Keyword signing, an augmentative communication strategy, is known to promote language acquisition in young children, yet staff in educational settings often receive insufficient training, leading to l...

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🔹 NEW ARTICLE - WJE 27.2 🔹 The Participation of Parents of Children with Additional Learning Needs (ALN) in the School Exclusion Process in Wales by Jemma Bridgeman ➡️ journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/article/...

The Participation of Parents of Children with Additional Learning Needs (ALN) in the School Exclusion Process in Wales

This study examined parents’ experiences of their child being excluded from school. Semi-structured interviews were completed with ten parents of children excluded from school; all children had an Add...

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