The curriculum and ICT

There is no national curriculum in Switzerland, but work is currently going on at both federal and regional levels to harmonise the cantonal curriculums. The 2007 strategy of the cantons with respect to ICT in education fixes the achievement of digital literacy as a general aim.

The curriculum framework
The national HarmoS project, developed by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Directors of Education (CDIP) amongst other things aims to guarantee the quality of education by fixing standards to be attained.
ICT in the curriculum
The 2007 strategy of the cantons with respect to ICT in education mentions the possibility of fixing pedagogical objectives for ICT competences as constraints for cantonal curricula within the forthcoming HarmoS programme.
Students' ICT competence
The HarmoS programme being currently ratified provides a general framework for the specific competences to be achieved by students.
Assessment schemes
Currently there is no national testing of pupils’ ICT competences. However, within the HarmoS framework, the CDIP has called upon a group of experts in order to draw up training standards for pupils.
ICT based assessment
There are no ICT-based assessment schemes at national level. However, a very few such assessment schemes exist at cantonal level.
Quality assurance
In most cantons the evaluation of the teaching body from pre-school (kindergarten) to upper secondary stages is in the hands of the school management.