curriculum

The new law, passed as Assembly Bill 1454, requires all school districts to adopt curricula aligned with what supporters call the “science of reading.”

Now the primary school national curriculum is taught in Somali with the curriculum remaining in English for higher education - and Arabic used at madrassas, or Islamic schools.

A review of the school curriculum - what is taught in schools in Northern Ireland - was recently completed.

It comes as Alliance MLA Nick Mathison submitted questions to the education minister calling for grief education to become a formal part of the school curriculum.

The court asked the government to include handwriting lessons in the medical school curriculum and set a two-year timeline for rolling out digitised prescriptions.