An Interview with Minister for Education Jeremy Miles

It's time to hit the road (for about a mile) and make an enormous mess of wires and microphones in the nerve-centre of Welsh Government. We travelled to Cathays Park for a chat with our second education minister since we started the podcast. Jeremy Miles has been the minister for education and the Welsh language for just under a year now, and with the implementation of the new curriculum for Wales just a few short months away, it wasn't hard to work out what we needed to ask him about.Our in-depth interview starts with the obvious question - are we ready? - and then tackles a number of pressing issues including the impact of Covid-19, concerns over equity and coherence, how to look after a very hard-pressed teaching profession and try to make it more reflective of the diversity of pupils in the classroom.While there are always going to be questions left unasked in 45 minutes, we hope we've provided you with some food for thought as we enter the final stages before September 2022.------------------------------------------Recorded at Cathays Park, Cardiff on 25th April 2022