ICT Mark for Schools

This year's conference will be held on the 4th October at the Coventry Techno Centre. The aim of the day is to develop delegates understanding of how ICT can be used to extend opportunities for learning.

QCA has published proposed assessment criteria and regulations for controlled assessment for the revised GCSE in ICT, for first teaching in 2010. You can contribute to Naace's response to QCA by visiting the wiki in Naace Knowledge and adding your comments to the questions there.

Sir Jim Rose is leading an independent review of the primary curriculum. His initial focus was Curriculum Design and Content, including a key issue for Naace members: What should be the position of ICT within the primary curriculum?
Here is Naace's response.

Naace Members have contributed to the DCSF consultation on the proposed Home Access programme. The DCSF sought views on a number of questions during Spring 2008 and the Naace response is published here.

In February 2008, Parliament announced its intention to undertake an Inquiry into the National Curriculum and invited submissions of written evidence.

Naace has completely revised its quality assurance scheme for service providers to make it consistent with established principles of self-review. Details of this new '2.0' scheme may be found here.