 I'm Bill Lucas, I'm Professor of Learning and Director of the Centre for Real World Learning at the University of Winchester and really for the last decade my focus has been on real world learning, especially on how young people and older people learn most effectively. So practitioners in FE and work-based learning have a really important role in creating a just and socially cohesive society and a successful and prosperous one, but I don't think enough attention has been played to the role of those individuals. We want the highest possible standards and we want to be really explicit about the role of professional learning. Perhaps most importantly, I and all my colleagues would like to see a re-esteeming of the importance of the workforce and of the value of professional learning. So most effective education systems have professional standards. Wales had some, but I think it would be truthful to say that they were quite complex. It's nearly 10 years since the last standards were created and the world's moved on. So the standards have been developed collaboratively over a period of about nine months. We gather together an expert group of both those who practice and those who think about practice and we work together in a series of workshops and we rather amazingly managed to agree on almost everything. So the big changes here are the length of the document. It's much shorter, it's much more accessible but the result is a set of standards that I believe are owned by the sector for whom they're designed. We hope these will be simpler and used widely by the sector. We also believe that they're quite innovative so we hope that Wales will see itself at the forefront of thinking about what it is to be a work-based learning or FE practitioner in this important part of the new millennium.