{"id":36744,"date":"2018-12-16T21:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=36744"},"modified":"2018-12-16T21:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:45:01","slug":"wales-takes-sweeping-effort-welsh-language-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/wales-takes-sweeping-effort-welsh-language-schools","title":{"rendered":"Wales takes on sweeping effort for Welsh language in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As the Welsh government takes on a national project to expand Welsh language fluency, what is the impact on primary and secondary education in Wales?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36862\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/multimedia\/wales-takes-sweeping-effort-welsh-language-schools\/attachment\/welsh-education\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36862\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36862\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Welsh-Education-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Primary school children sitting around a teacher in a classroom.\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36862\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Welsh-Education-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Primary school children sitting around a teacher in a classroom.\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Students travel around the world with books. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usagrc\/\">\u00a9U.S. Army Garrison Casey<\/a>\u00a0licensed by <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wales is making its native language a priority, especially in primary and secondary education. Explore below to understand geographic differences in Welsh fluency, growth in Welsh-medium schools, the debates surrounding Welsh education and grasp the challenges of spreading the Welsh language amongst students.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cael hwyl!<\/em> Have fun!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By 2050, the Welsh government aims to have a million Welsh speakers in the country \u2014 and Welsh education in schools is a big part of this plan.<\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p>As Welsh schools look to the future, change is already underway in many parts of Wales. From rising attendance in Welsh-medium schools to people who say they speak Welsh, the language is taking hold in the country once again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36853\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.piktochart.com\/output\/35018102-template-aesthetics-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36853 noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-36853 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Welsh-Education-Infographic-625x2280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"2280\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36853 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Welsh-Education-Infographic-625x2280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"2280\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <em>Click on the image to view an interactive version of the infographic<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Overhauling the educational system to teach more Welsh is a complex project, requiring large economic investments, in-depth teacher training and effectively convincing the population that the focus is worth time and energy. Drs Dylan Foster Evans and Si\u00f4n Jones explain the differing factors that influence parents\u2019 choice of Welsh-medium or English-medium schools.<\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Welsh government takes on a national project to expand Welsh language fluency, what is the impact on education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":36864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[597,620,632,685],"class_list":["post-36744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wales takes on sweeping effort for Welsh language in schools - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/wales-takes-sweeping-effort-welsh-language-schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wales takes on sweeping effort for Welsh language in schools - InterCardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the Welsh government takes on a national project to expand Welsh language fluency, what is the impact on education?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/wales-takes-sweeping-effort-welsh-language-schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"InterCardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-16T21:45:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Welsh-Education-featured-image.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"950\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"534\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Christian S. 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