Curriculum

Former secondary school leader Andy Brown will be ‘leading the work to update the maths and numeracy curriculum’

The DfE has published new guidance advising schools to share information about their music offerings online; a music educator explains how to start

Fidelity has been the buzzword of the past year, but strict prescription of teaching can have downsides alongside the positives, argues Jon Hutchinson. So, he asks, how much autonomy should teachers have?

Content in the ‘overcrowded’ curriculum must be reduced to deliver more financial education, say heads’ leaders

MPs have questioned sector experts and schools minister Damian Hinds about the government’s music hubs programme. Here are six things we learned

The chief executive of DfE-funded property company LocatED will lead a review into the controversial curriculum resources quango

Oracy needs to be more integrated into the curriculum, says OCR

These are the main changes to GCSE computer science set out by the Department for Education in plans published today

Teachers need more support if attempts to raise the status of Gaelic and Scots language in schools are to succeed, says Ingeborg Birnie

There are ‘only a few encouraging conclusions for Scottish education policy’ to mitigate declining Pisa scores in maths, science and reading, says Lindsay Paterson

This week’s essential education news includes Ofsted scrapping its curriculum unit project and news that managed moves have ‘more than doubled’

New proposals specifying age limits for when certain topics cannot be taught in either primary or secondary settings may require schools to rethink their curricula