Government seems not to rule out schools charging for “complete curriculum programmes”

Will the 11 schools taking part in the first round of the government’s “complete curriculum programme” trials be able to use it as the basis for selling their resources?

The question is one of several looming over this this project, our main story on which is here, in which selected institutions – all of them academies - are given up to £150,000 each per subject from the Department for Education to pilot the roll-out of “knowledge-rich” resources in science, geography and history.

In a question-and-answer document, provided by the DfE as background information about the project on the government’s “Contractsfinder” website, this was asked specifically.

One question, which is stated to have been asked during a DfE “webinar” on the scheme last August, asks: “If the curriculum programme is deemed to be successful, will the lead school be able to charge other schools to use the curriculum programme after the pilot?”

The DfE’s answer seems not to answer the question.