National Survey for Wales, January-March 2012: Education Results

The bulletin presents the Education results collected in the National Survey for Wales from January to March 2012.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 91% of parents were satisfied with the primary school their child attended and 88% were satisfied with the secondary school their child attended.
• The majority of parents (70% of primary and 86% of secondary school children’s parents) did not wish to participate in making decisions about the running of their child’s school.
• 85% of parents wanted their child to continue in full time education when they reached 16.
• The majority (over 80%) of parents of children aged 3 to 7 read with their child or helped their child to learn about letters, numbers or shapes at least several times a week, the support provided on school work was less frequent.
• 58% of parents of children aged 8 to 17 supported their child with their school work at least several times a week, however they were less likely to help their child to look up information on a computer, with 22% never doing so.
• Overall, people gave ‘education in Wales’ an average rating of 6.5, where 0 was ‘extremely bad’ and 10 was ‘extremely good’, which compared favourably with other European countries.
• 90% of households with children had access to the internet, compared with 62% of household where there were no children.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6685
E-mail: surveys@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

January 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on 'Due out Soon' page)