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UK National Curriculum

The National Curriculum of England, Wales and Northern Ireland provides a consistent framework for schools across the UK (excluding Scotland).
UK National Curriculum
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
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The National Curriculum was introduced into England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a nationwide curriculum for primary and secondary state schools following the Education Reform Act (1988).

It is not a mandatory framework for independent or private schools. Private schools are free to choose their own curriculum and examinations and many have opted for the IGCSE which is not tied to the National Curriculum.

As well as private schools, UK based academies and free schools may also set their own curricula.

Scotland has its own national curriculum.

International schools - in the UK and outside of it - clearly choose to adopt the framework, each one more or less rigorously.

The purpose of the National Curriculum has been to standardise the content taught across schools to enable assessment, which in turn enabled the compilation of league tables detailing the assessment statistics for each school.

The idea has been to raise educational standards by being able to see where there are weaknesses.

These league tables, together with the provision to parents of some degree of choice in assignment of the school for their child (also legislated in the same act) was also intended to encourage a free market by allowing parents to choose schools based on their measured ability to teach the National Curriculum.

For international schools outside the UK, the framework allows schools to benchmark themselves against their peers in the United Kingdom. 

Assessments are carried out at three ages: seven (school year 2, at the end of Key Stage 1), eleven (Year 6, the end of Key Stage 2) and fourteen (Year 9, the end of Key Stage 3). Some aspects of subjects are teacher-assessed, whilst others involve sitting an examination paper.

The results are considered when school and LEA performance league tables are being compiled, but they do not lead to any formal qualification for the candidates taking them.

 

Subject Key Stage 1
(age 5–7)
Key Stage 2
(age 7–11)
Key Stage 3
(age 11–14)
Key Stage 4
(age 14-16)
English x x x x
Mathematics x x x x
Science x x x x
Computing x x x x
Physical Education x x x x
Geography x x x  
History x x x  
Music x x x  
Art & Design x x x  
Design & Technology x x x  
Modern Foreign Languages   x x  
Citizenship     x x
Work-related Learning       x
Welsh (Wales only) x x x x

 The study of most subjects under the National Curriculum would usually culminate in the sitting of GCSE exams at the end of Key Stage 4.

 

 

16 Vietnam Schools offering UK National Curriculum

School name Community City
Brighton College Vietnam Ba Dinh Hanoi
British International School Hanoi Long Bien Hanoi
British International School, HCMC (Early Years) District 2 Ho Chi Minh City
British International School, HCMC (Secondary) District 2 Ho Chi Minh City
British International School, Ho Chi Minh City (Junior Campus) District 2 Ho Chi Minh City
British Vietnamese International School, Hanoi Ba Dinh Hanoi
British Vietnamese International School, Ho Chi Minh City District 1 Ho Chi Minh City
Horizon International Bilingual School, Hanoi (HIBS) Tay Ho Hanoi
North London Collegiate School Ho Chi Minh City District 1 Ho Chi Minh City
Reigate Grammar School Vietnam Hoang Mai Hanoi
Singapore International School, Ciputra Tay Ho Hanoi
Singapore International School, Gamuda Gardens Hoang Mai Hanoi
Singapore International School, Saigon South District 7 Ho Chi Minh City
Singapore International School, Van Phuc Ba Dinh Hanoi
The International [email protected] Hanoi Ha Dong Hanoi
Uppingham Vietnam

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