Welsh fall behind

Tes Editorial

10th October 1997 at 1:00am

Wales lags behind the UK in progress towards education and training targets. Both the percentage of people achieving the targets and the average rate of increase fall slightly behind the British average, according to the Further Education Funding Council for Wales.

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