AQW 17597/22-27

Mr Nick Mathison
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 05/11/2024
Answered On Date: 12/11/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the scope of the Review of the Northern Ireland Curriculum.

Answer:

The review will make a series of policy recommendations regarding the purpose, design, specification and implementation of the Northern Ireland Curriculum. It is also expected to provide a strategic assessment of the current curriculum within the international context.

The review will:

identify emerging curricular themes and key issues of public/political/media interest;

consider the role of curriculum design in tackling educational disadvantage and reducing educational inequalities;

produce coherent proposals and recommendations to support the future development/reform of the curriculum; and

make recommendations on how the curriculum should be monitored, reviewed and developed with relevant experts in the field, key education organisations, schools and other key stakeholders.