Thursday 5 January 2012

Review of the National Curriculum in England: …

Report on subject breadth in international jurisdictions

This report describes the organisation and content of school curricula in several countries and jurisdictions. It includes information about their: curriculum structure and organisation; curriculum review processes; lower secondary qualifications; and compulsory and optional curriculum subjects at different educational phases.

The principal source of information for this report has been the International Review of Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks Archive (INCA), the content of which is managed by NFER. INCA provides descriptions of government policy on education in 21 countries worldwide, focusing on curriculum, assessment and initial teacher training frameworks for pre‐school, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education in schools.

DFE Research Report RR178a (PDF 130pp)


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