We have to go beyond that and find ways of making the curriculum development and assessment procedures in Wales meet the Crisis in the Education System.

The backcloth to this debate is the same as that of all our education debates - the increasing Crisis in Our Education System.

This debate is about the Crisis in Our Education System.

When will the Government recognise that there is a serious Crisis in Our Education System?

I am talking about secondary schools, where class sizes are rising, not falling - one of the other signs of Crisis in the Education System.

It is a shame that the Opposition have not only whipped up such great fear by suggesting that there is a Crisis in Our Education System, but have provided no alternative policies.

The Crisis in Our Education System is structural and endemic, not cyclical.