Research and Enquiry

I want the practice of our leaders, teachers, support staff and local authority (LA) staff to be informed by accessible research evidence and professional enquiry. We believe this will be critical to the successful realisation of our new school curriculum  

Jeremy Miles MS

Minister for Education and the Welsh Language, June 2021 

This programme is supporting a growing network of schools to develop a range of enquiry skills by leading enquiries in their own setting to explore professional learning requirements for the new curriculum.  Following the 20/21 enquiry cycle, these lead enquiry schools will be equipped to support the wider schools network to begin to develop as professional enquiriers in readiness for 2022.

38 schools from across the region have taken part in the NPEP project during 2020-21. Schools enquires focused on one of four themes ‘Assessment and Progression', 'Re-imagining schooling', 'Inclusion,'  'Pedagogy and Learning’. Click on the school to see a summary of their enquiry. 

2021/22 research projects will be updated soon. 

Research studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Welsh education system. 

In June 2020, as part of the 'National Strategy for Educational Research and Enquiry', the Welsh Government awarded grants to the 8 universities in Wales to undertake collaborative research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the following aspects of the education system in Wales. 

Click on the links below to read the reports  

• • the use of blended and distance learning

  • the progress of learners

  • the progress of learners being taught the Welsh language

  • the assessment of learners

  • how schools had engaged parents/carers in their children’s learning

  • the health and wellbeing of learners and teachers