News & articles
18 September 2023
OASIS Citizens’ Curriculum: Language Education and a warm Welsh welcome
What’s the best way to teach language to newcomers in Wales? And how can teachers best be supported to work with refugees and asylum seekers, who may be learning a language while suffering from trauma and navigating the hostile environment created by the UK government? These are the questions we wanted to investigate with our Citizens’ Curriculum project, a partnership between Oasis, the University of South Wales, and Adult Learning Wales.
8 August 2023
A Citizens’ Curriculum for Wales?
In his speech to the Adult Learning Conference in 2022, the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language Jeremy Miles MS committed to positioning Wales as a second chance nation; where it’s never too late to learn.
14 April 2023
Three key lessons in delivering an in-work support service for Wales
Learning and Work Institute recently evaluated Welsh Government’s Healthy Working Wales: In-Work Support Service (IWS). The evaluation sought to glean key lessons from the project that focussed on South West and North West Wales ahead of a nation-wide rollout.
25 October 2021
Reframing Youth Engagement and Progression in Wales
Even before the pandemic tens of thousands of young people across Wales were facing difficulties in the labour market and in accessing education and training. Covid has deepened these inequalities and made new action from government even more urgent.
24 September 2021
Adult Learning in Wales – motivated and aspiring for better futures but still there are barriers to further and higher education
The need for a Welsh understanding of adult learning in respect of Further Education and Higher Education
16 September 2020
Wales faces unemployment crisis with one in five jobs in ‘shutdown sectors’
As we move towards the next stage of the crisis, the government should rightly focus on tackling unemployment. However, the issue of good work – that was not long ago at the top of policy makers agenda – must not lose prominence.
9 July 2020
Young people in poorest areas of Wales still left behind after two decades of devolution
The education and employment opportunities young people in Wales can expect are still being dictated by where they live – rather than by their ability – according to new data released by Learning and Work Institute Cymru today. The Youth Opportunity Index, the first of its kind in the country, showed that young people growing up in the most deprived areas like Torfaen, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent, have the least access to opportunities, leaving them facing a double-disadvantage.
