Guest Lecturer - Mike Day

Policies in Education Due to the sickness of our lecturer Andy Reynolds, we have been having many guests come and cover for him. Today, we had Mike Day. Mike Day is the Chair of the Education Committee and Senior Cabinet Member, City & County of Swansea. This was in fact, the first time he had taken a lecture for Educational Studies. Mike Day came in to talk to us about different policies within Education. With the different policies that Day had spoke of, he included the role of Local Education Authorities, policy and politics. He explained that education policy is a set of rules and laws that operate the education system. The aim of the policy is to reflect political opinions, tradition and values. Not only that but it is to make fundamental choices. Day had also explained to us about how it is used to create a work force and to produce rounded individuals. It is there to provide guidelines which are sometimes too strict, and do not allow you to do what you want. Considered by the education policy: - school size - school privatization - class size - teachers pay The education policy has been created by politicians and practitioners, within the UK levels and Welsh government. The welsh government cannot control the compulsory school age and teachers pay, but they can control the delivery of Welsh Medium and the foundation phase as these are specific to Wales.