Project to track children through schooling

Children are to be tracked from pre-school through to the start of second-level in a six-year project to monitor their experiences and to help improve primary education.

The work for the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) will provide new insights into how children experience primary school and how school staff and management view themselves.

But it will also help to inform a current NCCA review of the primary curriculum that is looking at giving schools more freedom to decide how much time is allocated to various subjects.