Welsh education inequality to be tackled by new centre

By David Matthews. Two Welsh universities have set up a centre designed to tackle educational inequality in the country. 
University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the University of Wales will look at how factors such as poverty, gender and ethnicity can affect how well young people do at school and university. 
The Wales Centre for Equity in Education is being launched this evening in Cardiff by the Welsh minister for education and skills, Huw Lewis.
It will try to develop policy, research and practice to improve equity in Welsh education. More...