Achieving the New Curriculum for Wales
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Wales (United Kingdom) is on the path to transform the way children learn, with a new curriculum aimed to prepare its children and young people to thrive at school and beyond. The new curriculum for Wales intends to create a better learning experience for students, to engage teachers’ professionalism, and to contribute to the overall improvement of Welsh education. An education policy is only as good as its implementation, however, and Wales turned to the OECD for advice on the next steps to implement the curriculum. This report analyses the progress made with the new curriculum since 2016, and offers suggestions on the actions Wales should take to ready the system for further development and implementation. The analysis looks at the four pillars of implementation — curriculum policy design, stakeholders' engagement, policy context and implementation strategy — and builds upon the literature and experiences of OECD countries to provide tailored advice to Wales. In return, the report holds value not only for Wales, but also for other education systems across the OECD looking to implement a curriculum or to enhance their implementation processes altogether.
OECD team and authors of the report
Beatriz Pont is a senior education policy analyst at the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, with extensive experience in education policy reform internationally. She currently leads the OECD’s Implementing Education Policies Programme. She has specialised in education policy and reform more generally, and in specific areas such as equity and quality in education, school leadership, adult learning and adult skills. She has also worked with individual countries such as Greece, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom (Wales) and others in their school improvement reform efforts and launched the comparative series Education Policy Outlook. Previously, Beatriz was a researcher on education and social policies in the Economic and Social Council of the Government of Spain and worked for Andersen Consulting (Accenture). She studied Political Science at Pitzer College, Claremont, California, and holds a Master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a PhD in Political Science from Complutense University, Madrid. She has been a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (Tokyo University), at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP, Sciences Po, Paris) and was granted an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.
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