John Osmond hears Education Minister Leighton Andrews threaten a root and branch shake-up of the county councils’ role in education
Raising school standards
Leighton Andrews AM, Minister for Education and Skills, to an IWA audience at the Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre, Cardiff University, 29 June 2011
Cardiff steam laundry tumbles towards oblivion
Peter Finch asks how far we should go to keep what we once had in the Welsh capital
Welsh taxation as an economic lever
Alan Trench puts First Minister Carwyn Jones’ views on financing the National Assembly under the spotlight
League tables should be kept for football
Philip Dixon challenges Gerry Holtham’s case for measuring school performance to drive up standards
Ball is in Edwina Hart’s court
Gareth Hughes says that despite another set of dismal economic indices Wales should be aiming for the premier league
Britain is just Wales, writ large a bit later on
Rhys David says correcting wrong impressions of British manufacturing cannot mask serious underlying problems
Badger cull reprieve signals power shift
Gareth Hughes suggests that Carwyn Jones has become a prisoner of his backbenchers as he goes into reverse gear
English-speaking Wales jumps language barrier
Meri Huws discovers why more monolingual parents are sending their children to Welsh-medium schools