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The Education Reform Act 1988 introduced a standardised National Curriculum in England and Wales. The curriculum specified what subjects should be taught and what standard children were expected to reach by different ages. It grouped school years between the ages of five and sixteen into four "key stages". According to one summary of the act: [1]
Opening page of the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 Further information: National Curriculum for Wales (2008–2026) In 2014, the Welsh Government commissioned Graham Donaldson, a professor at the University of Glasgow who had worked on reforms to education in Scotland , to conduct a report on reforming the curriculum in Wales. [ 1 ]
The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (Welsh: Deddf cwricwlwm ac asesu (Cymru) 2021) is an Act of Senedd Cymru for new curriculum requirements for all learners aged 3 to 16 in maintained or funded non-maintained schools and nursery education in Wales.
The overall structure of the curriculum was the same in Wales as in England, but there were some significantly different instructions about certain subjects in Wales. [47] The "Curriculum Cymreig" [49] (Welsh curriculum) was introduced in the 1990s to add an emphasis on Wales-related topics into the curriculum. [50] This was also a fairly novel ...
Secondary schools in Wales must, by law, teach the basic and the National Curriculum to their pupils. The basic curriculum consists of religious education, sex education, personal and social education, and for 14– to 16-year-olds, work-related education. Schools must also provide careers education and guidance for all 13-16-year-olds.
Wales is one of a handful of countries currently reforming their education systems. The Welsh government’s vision is set to overhaul the whole curriculum and assessment arrangements for ...
In Wales, statutory education begins in the term after a child's fifth birthday, although many children start primary school earlier than this or their parents choose to home educate them. Under the 2008 curriculum, between the ages of 3 and 11 a child's education was divided into two main stages:
The curriculum being rolled out in Wales from 2022 onwards is intended to give individual schools more control over the instruction they provide and the autonomy to develop their own curricula within a basic set of guidelines.