Teacher Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Wales==== {{Main|Education in Wales}} Education in Wales differs in certain respects from education elsewhere in the United Kingdom. For example, a significant number of students all over Wales are educated either wholly or largely through the medium of Welsh: in 2008/09, 22 per cent of classes in maintained primary schools used Welsh as the sole or main medium of instruction. Welsh medium education is available to all age groups through nurseries, schools, colleges and universities and in adult education; lessons in the language itself are compulsory for all pupils until the age of 16. Teachers in [[Wales]] can be registered members of [[trade unions]] such as [[Association of Teachers and Lecturers|ATL]], [[National Union of Teachers|NUT]] or [[NASUWT]] and a report in 2010 suggested that the average age of teachers in Wales was falling with teachers being younger than in previous years. It was suggested that a proportion of older teachers had faced discrimination and did not have their experience valued.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8630117.stm | work=BBC News | title=Wales' teachers 'getting younger' | date=20 April 2010 | access-date=3 December 2010 | archive-date=30 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830172219/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8630117.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> A growing cause of concern at that time was that attacks on teachers in Welsh schools reached an all-time high between 2005 and 2010.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11476605 | work=BBC News | title=Attacks on teachers in Wales on the rise | date=7 October 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123173859/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11476605 | archive-date=23 November 2010 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page