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Successful Futures for all

Start date:
September 2017  
End date:
February 2019  
Funder(s):
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales 
Status:
Completed 

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Research team

Successful Futures for all
Chris Taylor
Academic Director, SPARK
Cardiff University
Successful Futures for all
Nigel Newton
Lecturer in Education
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Successful Futures for all
Sally Power
WISERD Co-Director
Cardiff University

The Curriculum Journal 31(2)
Journal Articles
Re-educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

Curriculum Journal 31(2) pp 177-180 This Special Issue explores the many issues that arise when a country decides to rewrite the school curriculum––and particularly when that rewriting entails a radical departure from a conventional subject-based approach.

Education, Localities | Successful Futures for all | May 2020
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‘Successful futures’ for all in Wales? The challenges of curriculum reform for addressing educational inequalities

This paper focuses on the implications of the transformative student‐centred curriculum being developed in Wales for tackling educational inequalities. Informed by long‐standing debates within the sociology of education about the role of school knowledge in social and cultural reproduction, our research outlines some of the challenges that those implementing the new Curriculum for Wales need…

Education, Inequalities | Successful Futures for all | March 2020
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The rationale for subsidiarity as a principle applied within curriculum reform and its unintended consequences

Following trends across the developed world to devolve power and responsibility for public services to more local agencies, curriculum reforms in several countries have been characterised by policies designed to increase teacher agency and professionalism as a means of achieving successful change. In Wales, this approach has been promoted through adoption of a principle of…

Education | Successful Futures for all | February 2020
Successful futures for all: Explorations of curriculum reform - front
Reports and Briefings
Successful futures for all: Explorations of curriculum reform

Executive summary Aims There were two aims to the programme of research: the first relating to the need to identify emergent issues in the development of the curriculum as they relate to disadvantage; the second related to the need to build education research capacity in Wales. Research programme In order to meet both of the…

Education | Successful Futures for all | July 2019
Successful Futures Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales, welsh cover
Reports and Briefings
Successful Futures Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales (The Donaldson Review)

Since devolution, the Welsh Government has implemented a range of progressive curriculum reforms that have sought to foster enthusiasm for learning, to develop key academic skills and competencies and to promote a strong sense of citizenship. The Welsh Government has now committed itself to a fundamental and independent review of the national curriculum and assessment…

Civil Society, Education, Localities | Successful Futures for all | January 2015
News
WISERD Director elected to BERA Council
11th June 2021 | Sally Power

WISERD Director, Professor Sally Power, has been elected to sit on the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Council. BERA is a membership association and learned society committed to advancing research quality, building research capacity and fostering research engagement. They aim to inform the development of policy and practice by promoting the best quality evidence produced…

Education | Successful Futures for all
Blog
Curriculum reform and inequality: The challenges facing Wales
3rd June 2020 | Chris Taylor, Nigel Newton, Sally Power

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new Curriculum for Wales, based on the Successful futures for all review by Graham Donaldson (2015), entails a radical move away from the traditional…

Education | Successful Futures for all, WISERD Education
News
Findings from ‘Successful Futures for All’ presented at Senedd
15th November 2019 | Nigel Newton

This week, Dr Nigel Newton presented findings from our ‘Successful Futures for All’ project to members of the Children, Young People and Education Committee of the National Assembly for Wales. The project explores the way the new curriculum is being developed in Pioneer Schools and the potential impact on children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Curriculum for…

Education, Inequalities | Successful Futures for all
Media
Dr Nigel Newton talks about closing the attainment gap on BBC Radio Wales
17th July 2019 | Nigel Newton

Following on from the previous Eye On Wales programme last month, when Dr Nigel Newton was involved in a discussion which introduced the new education system, Dr Newton now discusses whether or not the new curriculum will help to close the attainment gap. Almost two-thirds of teachers at schools that have trialled Wales’ new curriculum feel it will…

Education | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
Media
New school curriculum ‘could widen achievement gap’ – Dr Nigel Newton featured in BBC news article
17th July 2019 | Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton comments on Wales’ new curriculum in a BBC news article.

Education, Localities | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
Media
Dr Nigel Newton discusses new curriculum for Wales on BBC Radio Wales
26th June 2019 | Nigel Newton

Wales’ education system is about to change. Eye On Wales finds out what’s involved and Dr Nigel Newton takes part in the discussion which introduces the new system (6:27).

Education, Localities | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
Media
Dr Nigel Newton research on the new curriculum in Wales featured in Western Mail
18th April 2019 | Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton writes about new research which suggests the new curriculum in Wales, although more holistic, may mean students miss out on subject knowledge.            

Education | Successful Futures for all
Blog
Hopes and fears: The development of a new curriculum in Wales
16th April 2019 | Nigel Newton

Since 2015, ‘pioneer’ schools across Wales have been contributing to the development of a new national curriculum based on Professor Graham Donaldson’s (2015) report, Successful Futures. As part of a Welsh government-funded research project being conducted through the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD),*  over 30 teachers involved in this…

Education, Localities | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools, Successful Futures for all
News
WISERD presents latest research on curriculum reform in Wales
8th February 2019 | Chris Taylor, Nigel Newton

    WISERD Co-Director, Professor Chris Taylor and Dr Nigel Newton presented at an education event sponsored by WISERD and the Learned Society of Wales this week, where a new report by the Institute of Welsh Affairs on implications of curriculum reform was launched. Following a review undertaken by Professor Graham Donaldson in 2015, the…

Education, Localities | Evaluating the Foundation Phase, Successful Futures for all, WISERD Education
Blog
Pioneers voice their hopes and fears for the new Curriculum for Wales
27th June 2018 | Carmel Conn, Chris Taylor, Helen Lewis, Judith Kneen, Nigel Newton, Owen Davies, Sally Power, Susan Chapman

Wales is in the process of developing a curriculum that is designed to transform the nature of teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools. The ‘Curriculum for wales’ – sometimes referred to simply as ‘Donaldson’ after the person who developed the proposals – is based on ‘ a brand new way of developing a…

Education | Development of the new curriculum in Pioneer schools
Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar
Postponed: WISERD Lunchtime Seminar- Supporting school governors to reflect of their own effectiveness: research findings on the development of a new toolkit
24th March 2020

This Seminar has been postponed, new date TBC Presented by Nigel Newton, WISERD. This seminar is part of the Cardiff WISERD Lunchtime Seminar series. If you are an external guest, please contact us (029 2087 9338) to confirm availability of places. For further information please contact WISERD.Events@cardiff.ac.uk


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Education

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