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Curriculum and qualifications: detailed information

• From: Department for Education, Ofqual, and Standards and Testing Agency

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Curriculum

• National curriculum
• Sex and relationship education
• Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education
• Religious education in local-authority-maintained schools
• Disapplying aspects of the national curriculum

Qualifications

• GCSE subject content
• English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
• GCE AS and A level subject content
• New AS and A levels: requirements and guidance
• Introduction of T Levels
• Performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications

Functional skills

• Functional skills subject content: English
• Functional skills subject content: mathematics

National curriculum assessments

• National curriculum assessments: guidance for local authorities
• National curriculum assessments: early years foundation stage
• 2019 early years foundation stage: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
• Phonics screening check: administration
• National curriculum assessments: key stage 1 tests
• 2019 key stage 1: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
• National curriculum assessments: key stage 2 tests
• 2019 key stage 2: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
• National curriculum assessments: practice materials

Information for parents and carers

• The national curriculum
• GCSE new grading scale: factsheets
• Changes to assessments in primary schools
• Courses and qualifications for 14 to 19 year olds
• Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: FAQs