Calls For Universal Welsh Medium Education Intensify - Language Society Targets a Principal Welsh County

The Welsh Language Society (Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg) have endorsed a campaign calling on the Powys County Council to ensure Welsh medium education be made avaialable to every student in the county. Powys is a county which sprawls north to south along the central section of the Welsh border with England. If universal welsh medium eduction should be introduced in the county it would form a language bulwark supporting the Celtic tongue in east central Wales.

Cambrian News On-Line (see link below) quote spokesmen for Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg calling on the Powys County Council to :  “implement a comprehensive package of measures supporting the Welsh language in the field of education, including establishing a network of....primary and secondary schools, including every two-stream schools in Montgomeryshire - along the linguistic continuum.”  

The Society have been campaigning for the rights of Welsh speakers since its formation in 1962 and since then have launched protests in support of Celtic tongue of Wales.  In 2011 the work of The Welsh Language Society pressured the National Assembly to adopt the Welsh Language Measure establishing the Welsh language as an official language of Wales and introducing the post of Welsh Language Commissioner.

This follows the stunning advance for the Celtic Tongue signaled by the Welsh Education Minister, Huw Lewis,  early this month. In a meeting with the education group of the Welsh Language Society the Minister indicated the Welsh government's intention to move to universal Welsh medium education which if implemented would over time lead to the de facto primacy of the Celtic tongue of Wales for the first time in centuries.

http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/52061/

Powys, pictured below, is a principal county in Wales.  Image compliments of Wikipedia: