Try GOLD - Free
Wales recruiting 'nowhere near enough' secondary teachers
Glamorgan Gazette
|June 12, 2025
WALES is only training around a third of the necessary secondary school teachers, with nowhere near enough recruits and no improvement in sight, an education chief warned.
-
Hayden Llewellyn, the Education Workforce Council (EWC) chief executive, gave evidence to the Senedd education committee's inquiry on recruitment and retention on June 5.
Mr Llewellyn identified a clear pattern in initial teacher education, with recruitment problems centred on secondaries and “no problem” in primary schools.
The head of the workforce regulator said the Welsh Government aims for about 600 primary teachers to be trained each year, with that number overdelivered in August 2024.
This story is from the June 12, 2025 edition of Glamorgan Gazette.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM Glamorgan Gazette
Glamorgan Gazette
Man found dead just days after he left hospital
A MAN who was granted leave from a mental health unit on Christmas Eve was found dead by police officers two weeks later in woodland in the Litchard area of Bridgend.
2 mins
December 11, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
Slide away! Parents cry foul at £200k park plan
A COUNTRY park has announced a £200,000 refurbishment for its children's play area - but many parents have been left unhappy by the proposed loss of a 30-year-old slide.
2 mins
December 11, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
Wyn Jones switches the pitch for the kitchen
AFTER a successful rugby career, Alun Wyn Jones has decided to switch the pitch for the kitchen.
1 mins
December 04, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
Police respond to 'potential riot' outside senior citizens' lodge
POLICE have said they were called out to a “chaotic scene” after a dispute broke out between two groups of charity trustees.
1 min
December 04, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
Pensioner found with £30k cash and £15k of drugs
A 70-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed after he was found with nearly £30,000 in cash and an estimated £15,000 worth of drugs.
1 mins
December 04, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
New images give peek at future for Porthcawl
NEW images revealing how changes to Porthcawl’s seafront area could look in the coming years have been published by Bridgend County Council.
1 mins
December 04, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
Former MP denies charges over passport
A FORMER Conservative MP has denied having a false passport during the time she was sitting in Parliament.
1 min
November 27, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
'Bridgend will be at the centre of Al revolution'
A NEW hi-tech growth zone that includes Bridgend will put the whole region “at the heart of Britain's economic recovery”.
3 mins
November 27, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
'Significant progress' made in repairs to damaged homes
REPAIRS to damaged properties in Caerau, Bridgend, are under way more than 10 years after work from an insulation scheme that wrecked homes in one of Wales’ poorest communities.
2 mins
November 27, 2025
Glamorgan Gazette
Prison expansion plans approved
CONTROVERSIAL plans to expand troubled Parc Prison to house hundreds more inmates have been approved.
2 mins
November 20, 2025
Listen
Translate
Change font size