The Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review has published its findings - read more...
Source: pfeg
21 Dec 11
The Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review has published its findings. It states that international evidence shows that many high performing jurisdictions use education to develop ‘economic wellbeing’. This adds weight to pfeg’s campaign for personal finance education in schools.
Some specific points that the report discusses are:
- Which subjects should be included in the school curriculum, the basic curriculum and the national curriculum
- How the qualifications, particularly GCSE and vocational qualifications can be reformed
- Whether national curriculum levels should remain
- How many years should be within each key stage
In the Secretary of State’s ministerial statement accompanying the report on 19th December, Michael Gove stated that as the Government is looking for ‘radical reform’ of both the curriculum and qualifications they will delay introduction of English, mathematics, science and PE programmes of study until all other subjects are ready too. This will give teachers the chance to plan coherently across the whole curriculum in time for a September 2014 implementation. A detailed timetable for the remainder of the review will be published in the New Year.
In addition, it has been announced that the Department of Education is creating a new Curriculum and General Qualifications Reform Group to cover the National Curriculum reform, GCSE reform and A-level reform.
