Review of the National Curriculum in England: Report on subject breadth in international jurisdictions
01 December 2011
To support the review of the National Curriculum, NFER was commissioned by the Department for Education in the spring of 2011 to produce a report detailing curricular arrangements in a number of high-performing educational jurisdictions. The report examines curriculum structure and organisation; the curriculum review processes; lower secondary qualifications; and compulsory and optional curriculum subjects at different educational phases in Victoria (Australia and new Australian National Curriculum), Alberta and Ontario (Canada), Finland, France, Hungary, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Massachusetts (USA).