CIPD consultation response: Curriculum and assessment review

We sent our feedback to the Curriculum and Assessment Review, highlighting the need to equip young people with the core essential and transferrable skills needed for success in the workplace.

Most of the questions in this call for evidence were outside the CIPD’s expertise, so we tailored our response around our work developing a Universal Framework for Essential Skills (the Skills Builder Universal Framework), and building these essential workplace skills for young people more effectively in education.

We highlight the need to adopt the Universal Framework, and also urge the review to adopt the features of effective curriculum and assessment design, which include:

• Using precise language to distinguish between basic, technical and essential skills, and referring to specific skill steps rather than broad skills.
• Setting clear age-related expectations, while enabling flexibility.
• Building essential skills across the curriculum.
• Building essential skills through applied learning, careers education and workplace experience.
• Regular and ongoing assessment

You can read more about these points on the link below.