Emma & Tom Talk Teaching 25 Years of Education in Wales with Dr Gareth Evans
To complement our Senedd election special episodes, we welcome Dr Gareth Evans back to the podcast to set the scene with a look at how education in Wales has developed since devolution in 1999.
Gareth is well-placed to give us the back-story leading up to these pivotal elections, as he is Director of Education Policy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and previously the education correspondent of the Western Mail, Wales's national newspaper.
He's just had a paper published in the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, describing what he calls 'a story of contradiction' in Wales's education policies of the past quarter of a century.
It's a timely moment to dig into these contradictions as we approach what may be a historic election result in a country whose political landscape has, not only since devolution but for 100 years, been dominated by the Labour party.
Apologies to our YouTube viewers who will see the cameras cut out half way through as we overran our studio booking!
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Recorded in studios B2.16 and B2.17 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 12th December 2025