Former First Secretary Mr Michael is seeking the Labour nomination to run for the role when it is elected for the first time in November and a number of heavyweight figures, including former rival Rhodri Morgan, fell in line behind him. But it emerged...

Ms Keane said although the majority of schools bought into the initiative, in some cases teachers were “too enthusiastic” and gave children too much control. The Foundation Phase, hailed by former First Minister Rhodri Morgan as his proudest...

Ms Jones, who was Plaid’s spokesperson on the economy at the time, said she considered the scrapping of the WDA to be a major error that her leader had gone along with. She said: “The decision to immediately support the abolition of the WDA on the day...

I think the difficulty is that most of the debates about funding were way after me.” Five years have passed since Ms Davidson stood down from education to assume charge of what she described as the “biggest portfolio in the Cabinet” at the time. As a...

The primary school (more than 60% of pupils on free school meals) has made the Foundation Phase a great success. It will be even more successful with Flying Start. The Foundation Phase was a “made in Wales” policy steered by Jane Davidson, one of the...

Ms Davidson has a formidable CV and as one of the founding members of the Welsh Assembly, was a close ally to inaugural First Minister Rhodri Morgan. More than a decade later, she is retired from politics and is director of Inspire – Wales’ first...