• 23 Jan 2025
  • In-person

IoD NI Consultation on the review of the NI Curriculum

The Education Minister recently announced a review of the NI Curriculum. As part of the work, they are keen to meet with a range of interested organizations to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the current Northern Ireland curriculum and priority areas for reform.

The department of Education are looking for feedback from the business community on the strengths / weaknesses of NI Curriculum and areas reform through the lens of employers.

The overarching aim of the review is to make a series of policy recommendations regarding the purpose, design, specification, and implementation of the Northern Ireland curriculum.   This work is being led by Lucy Crehan. She is holding a focus group meeting on Thursday 23 January at 11.30am via Zoom with a range of business interests and would be keen for the business community to be involved.  The session will last up to 90 minutes and be an informal online roundtable discussion on key issues for curriculum reform. 

Speakers

Lucy Crehan

Lucy Crehan is a respected international education consultant and author. She began her career teaching Science at a secondary school in London, before becoming disillusioned with the education system and setting off on an ethnographic exploration of six of the world’s highest performing education systems, living with teachers, and teaching and observing lessons in each place. Her aim was to explore the classroom-level effects of system-level policies, and her findings formed the basis for her book, 'Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World's Education Superpowers,' which swiftly earned acclaim, securing its place as one of The Economist's 'Books of the Year' within just one week of its release.

Lucy has continued to build her expertise in this area through the study of other education systems, using a cross-disciplinary lens which draws on her degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Oxford University, and her MEd from Cambridge University. She uses this expertise to support national and regional governments and NGOs with education policy design, and to teach policy professionals through her courses on global education policy. Lucy is the International Director of the Centre for Education Systems. She is an Associate Advisor for Curriculum at Swansea University, and teaches on a Masters programme at the University of Buckingham. She regularly speaks at conferences all over the world, and is currently writing a book on curriculum.

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