Little detail on protecting universities and collegespublished at 11:01 BST
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Bethan Lewis
BBC Wales Family & Education Correspondent
Many in education may well welcome the fact there aren’t any big eye-catching announcements on schools in this manifesto.
That’s because recent reforms to the curriculum and the additional learning needs system have brought huge pressures which are still working their way through the system.
Welsh Labour are promising a “relentless focus” on literacy and numeracy, but their critics would say that major concerns about the basics in Welsh education are an indictment of their record.
There is a pledge, however, to extend free school meals in secondary schools “at least to all households receiving Universal Credit”.
On higher education, there’s a promise to “protect the long-term futures” of universities and colleges but with little detail.
And prospective students and their families will also be keen for more information about how a Wales-only repayment plan for student loans would work at a time when student finance is high on the agenda.
Childcare is an area where all parties are promising to act and, in this Senedd term, Labour have focused on extending free childcare to all two-year-olds.
They haven’t completed that roll out, but now say they would phase it in for children from nine months if they got back in government.