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Are you eligible for help with further education costs?
Applications for Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for 2025-26 are now open.

Grant scheme helps increase numbers of Welsh speaking teachers
The Welsh-medium capacity building grant gives secondary schools the opportunity to find innovative ways to tackle short-term staffing problems, increasing numbers of Welsh-speaking teachers and teaching assistants.

College wellbeing support playing important role in learners education experience
Learners across Wales are benefiting from increased wellbeing and mental health support thanks to £4 million in funding for colleges. Funding has previously been used to create wellbeing centres or counselling.

Extra funding to improve facilities for pupils with additional learning needs
New and improved classrooms and equipment for children and young people with additional learning needs (ALN).

Schools get a slice of the Pi thanks to new maths schemes
Pupils at Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi in Holyhead are celebrating Pi Day, Friday 14 March, by decorating a giant Pi symbol on the playground and competing in the annual Pi memory competition (last year's winner recited pi to 120 digits from memory).

Youth work scheme boosts school attendance in Blaenau Gwent
A partnership between youth work provision and secondary schools in Blaenau Gwent is making positive strides in improving pupils' school attendance.

£19 million to support the Higher Education sector
Universities in Wales will be supported by investment of £18.5 million to help them address the challenges facing the higher education sector, and a further £500,000 to support international recruitment and promotion.

Scheme to boost numbers of Welsh speaking teachers now open
Now open for applications, the ‘Cynllun Pontio’ programme is aimed at attracting Welsh-speaking teachers to secondary schools in Wales.

Safer Internet Day 2025: Welsh pupils become ‘scam-smart'
Pupils aged 7-11 at Griffithstown Primary School in Pontypool are being taught how to recognise signs of an online scam, like offers that are ‘too good to be true’ or requests for personal information.

Thousands more learners to receive financial support through Education Maintenance Allowance
Thousands more post 16 learners in colleges and sixth forms will receive the Education Maintenance Allowance following a Welsh Government decision to uplift the household income thresholds resulting in more families being able to apply.

More than £20m to help universities tackle climate change. Loan funding will help universities reach low carbon ambitions
Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Vikki Howells, visited Cardiff University to see how a £12.2m investment is accelerating their progress towards carbon reduction.

Estyn to review use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools
Estyn, the education and training inspectorate for Wales, will lead a review to understand how Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is currently used in schools across Wales.