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Read It, Question It, Respond: Northern Ireland's Consultation

Read It, Question It, Respond: Northern Ireland's Consultation16 sept24 min

Send me a message. This week I'm digging into curriculum consultations — specifically the one currently open for Northern Ireland's Technology and Design curriculum, which I helped draft and which closes on 30 September. Before getting into the detail, I wanted to clear up something that keeps coming up in conversations, including one I had only today: what a national curriculum document actually does. In England and Northern Ireland, these documents say what should be taught and why — not ho...