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• 2026

  20 Mar 2026

  Ten years of the Education Workforce Council: reflecting on our journey, impact, and future

  • Registration
  • Regulation
  • Professional Learning
  • Promotion of careers

  13 Mar 2026

  Leadership, professionalism, and public trust: what the Code means for education leaders

  • Leadership
  • Professional Learning
  • EWC Code

  11 Feb 2026

  Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025: Insights into the working lives and mental health of education staff in Wales

  • Wellbeing
  • Education Support

• 2025

  20 Oct 2025

  Why registration and regulation are essential to safeguarding learners, young people, and the public

  • Registration
  • Regulation
  • EWC
  • Parents and guardians
  • Safeguarding

  10 Oct 2025

  Mental Health Day 2025 – staff wellbeing

  • Good practice guides
  • Mental health
  • Education Support
  • Emotional and mental health

  03 Oct 2025

  Who are the EWC

  • Regulation
  • EWC
  • Parents and guardians
  • Safeguarding

  01 May 2025

  Self-efficacy: Preventing homelessness among young people in Wales

  • Youth work
  • Homelessness

  10 Apr 2025

  AI in education: navigating opportunities, challenges, and ethics – key takeaways from Professionally Speaking 2025

  • Professionally Speaking
  • Education
  • AI

  20 Feb 2025

  Five reasons why your registration record matters

  • Registration
  • Regulation
  • MyEWC

• 2024

  09 Dec 2024

  Shaping the future of curriculum design in Wales

  • Education reform
  • Curriculum

  25 Oct 2024

  Purposeful steps to an anti-racist Wales

  • Diversity
  • Equality
  • Inclusion

  15 May 2024

  Digital toolbar to help create an accessible experience

  • Accessibility

  27 Mar 2024

  A youth sector response to the homelessness agenda in Wales. What now, what next?

  • Youth work

  07 Feb 2024

  How Estyn inspection and the Quality Mark complements the provision of high-quality youth work in Wales

  • Quality Mark for Youth Work
  • Estyn

• 2023

  22 Nov 2023

  Things looking a little different with the EWC?

  • Your EWC
  • Accessibility

  21 Nov 2023

  'Pause in Teaching': developing student teachers' reflection-in-action

  • School workforce
  • ITE
  • Partnership
  • Education and training
  • classroom

  07 Nov 2023

  Urban Circle Newport and The University of South Wales - Faces, spaces, places: Our partnership story so far…

  • Youth work
  • Wellbeing
  • Anti-racist

  20 Oct 2023

  How the Athrofa Professional Learning Partnership (APLP) supporting the anti-racist Wales agenda

  • ITE
  • Anti-racist

  26 Apr 2023

  How Quality Youth Work has contributed to youth homelessness prevention – Nick Hudd

  • Youth work

• 2022

  17 Feb 2022

  Why quality is vital to international learning

  • Education
  • Learning

  19 Jan 2022

  Youth work and wellbeing - Tim Opie and Darrel Williams

  • Youth work
  • Wellbeing

• 2021

  02 Dec 2021

  Paul Glaze - Good youth work practice and why it’s important to share it

  • Youth work

  19 Nov 2021

  Donna Ali - Representation Matters: Introducing a new network for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Teaching Assistants

  • Diversity
  • Schools
  • Race
  • Professional Learning

  27 Sep 2021

  Sharron Lusher - Setting pay and conditions for school teachers in Wales: how does it all work?

  • Schools

  26 Jul 2021

  Keith Towler - Recognising excellence in youth work through the Quality Mark

  • Youth work
  • Quality Mark for Youth Work

  18 Jun 2021

  David Williams - What does youth work look like in Wales?

  • Youth work

  04 May 2021

  Mark Ford - Why it’s time to ‘Talk Pedagogy’

  • Schools
  • Professional Learning

  14 Apr 2021

  American trained teacher leading the way in Wales

  • Regulation
  • Qualifications
  • Teaching

  12 Mar 2021

  Susan Davis & Chantelle Haughton - Ethnic Minority recruitment to ITE and the teaching profession in Wales: an opportunity to have your say.

  • Schools
  • ITE

  24 Feb 2021

  Anthony Priest - Mental health, wellbeing and Covid-19: free support for schools in Wales

  • Schools
  • Wellbeing
  • Mental health

  16 Feb 2021

  Nick Hudd - 'Blended learning', not 'blended teaching'

  • COVID-19
  • Blended learning

  01 Feb 2021

  Jacqueline Cassidy: Children’s Mental Health Week 1 - 7 February 2021

  • Wellbeing
  • Mental health

• 2020

  21 Oct 2020

  Dr Howard Williamson - From the local to the global: Is youth work coming of age in Wales?

  • Youth work

  20 Oct 2020

  Professor Mick Waters - Blended Learning: what’s in the mix?

  • Schools
  • COVID-19
  • Blended learning

  02 Oct 2020

  Teachers’ professional learning and development

  • Schools
  • Professional Learning

  04 Sep 2020

  Just landed: new standards visualisation tool for the PLP

  • Professional Learning
  • PLP

  22 Jul 2020

  Keith Towler - Youth Work continues to support young people in overcoming the challenges of COVID-19

  • Youth work
  • COVID-19

  26 Jun 2020

  Aled Roberts - A million Welsh speakers: the role of the education sector

  • Welsh language

  11 Jun 2020

  Nia Brodrick - Improving mental health provision in the FE sector in Wales

  • Wellbeing
  • Further education
  • Work-based learning

  28 May 2020

  Sophie Howells - Looking after your mental health during the coronavirus crisis

  • Wellbeing
  • Mental health
  • COVID-19

  06 Apr 2020

  Professor Mick Waters: Planning to get learning going again

  • Schools
  • Learning
  • COVID-19
  • Primary
  • Secondary

  29 Apr 2020

  Keith Towler: Youth work in Wales rises to the challenges of the lockdown

  • Youth work
  • COVID-19

  15 Apr 2020

  Parentkind asks: what are parents’ worries about the impact of coronavirus?

  • COVID-19
  • Parents and the public

  10 Feb 2020

  Making education everyone’s business is key to boosting Wales’ productivity

  • Business
  • Vocational

  21 Jan 2020

  Philip Blaker - Testing the Future

  • Regulation
  • Qualifications

• 2017

  24 Nov 2017

  Tegwen Ellis - The National Academy for Education Leadership: A new start for Wales?

  • Leadership

  16 Mar 2017

  The PLP a passport to the future...

  • PLP

• 2016

  22 Aug 2016

  Rhian Huws Williams - Regulation for success

  • Regulation

  22 Aug 2016

  Ken Jones - ‘Professional Development’ or ‘Professional Learning’ ... and does it matter?

  • Schools