What is Ed? (Mike Day)

On 28th February, we had another guest speaker. This time it was Mike Day, chairman of the Education committee and senior cabinet member of city and council of Swansea. He firstly discussed how policy and politics come into our everyday life both at home and at work. It was interesting to be told that policy and politics is down to the practitioners such as your teachers, politicians and local education authorities. He said that education policy is used to create a workforce while producing rounded individusls. Policy in education provides guidelines however this can be a negative output as it may cause such strictness, that you might not be able to do what you think is right. It was also interesting to learn what the Welsh goverment cannot control. These include teachers salary and the compulsory school age. They can however control the foundation phase and the welsh medium. Overall this lecture was interesting as Mike engages us learners in the presentation.