Emma Mackintosh

South Wales Argus reporter

South Wales Argus reporter

Latest articles from Emma Mackintosh

EDUCATION FILE: The politics of testing children

AS one of Wales’ biggest teaching unions calls on the Welsh Government to rethink its strategy of testing children aged six to 14, EMMA MACKINTOSH takes a look at some of the responses from teachers to the tests.

Gwent headteachers visit US schools

A GROUP of headteachers from south east Wales visited the USA as part of British Council Wales’s International Education Programme last week.

Altered Welsh qualifications 'welcomed' - minister

BUSINESSES and organisations including Admiral Insurance, the Principality building society, Brains Brewery and Oxford and Cambridge universities have all welcomed Wales’ new look qualifications, according to the education minister Huw Lewis.

Teacher wins top poetry prize

AN ENGLISH teacher and poet from Gwent has won first prize in an international poetry competition, with a chance to perform at a poetry festival next year.