The Northern Ireland Curriculum aims to empower young people to achieve their potential and make informed and responsible decisions throughout their lives.

It should provide learning opportunities for each young person to develop as:

1. an individual to achieve personal fulfilment and individual well-being through living a successful life,
2. a contributor to society to be concerned for the wellbeing of others as well as themselves, in their own society and beyond it,
3. a contributor to the economy and the environment -to appreciate how employment will impact on the economic choices they make and how they, in turn, impact individually and collectively on the environment.

Minimum requirements are set within a curriculum and skills framework. The framework facilitates greater flexibility to customise learning rather than one-size-fits-all.

CCEA has a statutory responsibility to keep all aspects of the curriculum for schools and colleges under review and to advise the Department of Education on matters concerned with the curriculum (Education (NI) Order 1998).

We do this in a range of ways including listening to our schools and education partners and reflecting on research and reports.We also undertake specific curriculum monitoring activities including consultation events, stakeholder meetings, surveys and focus groups. In 2018/19 we implemented the first stage of our refreshed Curriculum Monitoring Programme.

For more information on the Curriculum Monitoring programme, contact:

CCEA Research and Statistics Team: [email protected]