Thursday, June 15, 2007
Release: Immedate

CfBT WINS CONTRACT FOR SUBJECT SPECIFIC SUPPORT FOR THE NEW SECONDARY CURRICULUM

Leading education charity CfBT Education Trust has been awarded the Department for Education and Skills’ (DfES) contract to provide subject specific support for the implementation of the new secondary curriculum.

Working with ten relevant subject associations CfBT will be offering subject specific support for the implementation of the forthcoming new secondary curriculum to all maintained schools in England covering PSHE, citizenship, history, geography, design and technology, languages, art and design, PE, RE and music.

This support will include web-based materials such as curriculum writing guides, a toolkit of resources for teachers and case studies of best practice as well as information sharing events in the nine local government regions.

The aim of the support provided by CfBT and the subject associations is to assist secondary school subject leaders and teachers to deliver the new curriculum content in particular subjects in a way that allows them to link across the whole curriculum in imaginative and inspirational ways.

Following the recent review of the secondary curriculum undertaken by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) this contract represents part of a wider programme of multi-agency support for implementation of the new secondary curriculum.

Margaret Abbott, UK Services Director CfBT Education Trust, said: “We are very pleased to have been awarded this contract by the DfES and are looking forward to working with the subject associations to provide support to teachers for the implementation of the new secondary curriculum.”

CfBT and subject associations are currently in the process of appointing national subject leads and up to 450 regional subject advisors with expertise in subject teaching, developing and leading CPD to work with the associations in developing materials for teachers.

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CfBT is working with the following subject associations to deliver the subject specific support for the implementation of the new secondary curriculum contract:

  • Association for Language Learning
  • Geographical Association
  • Historical Association
  • National Association of Teachers of Religious Education
  • National Society for Education in Art and Design
  • Personal, Social and Health Education
  • Association for Physical Education
  • Association for Citizenship Teaching
  • Design and Technology Association
  • National Association of Musical Educators

Notes for Editors:

CfBT Education Trust is a leading education consultancy and service organisation. Our object is to provide education for public benefit both in the UK and internationally. Established 40 years ago CfBT Education Trust now has an annual turnover exceeding £100 million and employs more than 2,000 staff worldwide who support educational reform, teach, advise, research and train.

As a not-for-profit organisation we commit around £1million of our surpluses every year for practice-based educational research.

Visit www.cfbt.com and www.qca.org.uk for more information.

 

For more information contact:

Karen Borrer MCIPR
PR Manager, CfBT Education Trust
60 Queens Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 4BS
0118 902 1256
07920 476593
kborrer@cfbt.com