Letters to the Editor: We should heed AI warning in British school curriculum report

'Despite the fact that the Irish Science Teachers’ Association, the ASTI and the Irish Universities Association representatives on the NCCA Biology, Chemistry, and Physics have publicly dissociated from the flawed model [in the senior cycle curriculum plan], all of these concerns have been ignored by the Department of Education.' 

Hildegarde Naughton, the new minister for education, would be well advised to study carefully the recently published Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report for England (November 2025). This report, commissioned by the UK government’s Department for Education, was written by Professor Becky Francis and her panel of educational experts and is grounded in extensive evidence. 

Its conclusions could not be more relevant for Ireland as we reshape our own senior cycle.