The impact of Covid-19 on pupils and student teachers with Professor Emmajane Milton and Dr Alex Morgan

Today we're releasing the first in a double-bill of podcast episodes discussing joint research carried out by the Cardiff Partnership for Initial Teacher Education, and presented at events convened by the International Professional Development Association.

We're joined by the newly-professored Emmajane Milton (congratulations to her!) and Dr. Alex Morgan from Cardiff University, who carried out research in a team with colleagues from Cardiff Met. The research, funded by Welsh Government, aimed to discover the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on both pupils and student teachers, with a particular emphasis on assessment.

The findings were interesting and concerning for both groups, and what we present today is a no-holds-barred, in-depth discussion about the state of education today as we continue to face challenges from Covid-19, and as we look to reform education in Wales.

At the time we release this episode, the report itself had not been publicly released, but on 23rd March we received news that it is now publicly available. You can read them here, and the report being discussed today is research study 4.

We'll be back in a fortnight with another episode based on this work, in which we dig deeper into how initial teacher education fared when the pandemic hit.

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Recorded in studio D0.12 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 3rd March 2022