The development, function and future of Compacts

Examines reasons for Britain’s economic decline and sets the context for a partnership between education and industry. Examines the benefits of a work‐invested curriculum with particular reference to the primary sector. Seeks reasons for and the consequences of the haphazard approaches that have characterized some of these links. Against this backcloth undertakes a case study to determine the content and economic concepts which might characterize a curriculum to include economic awareness. The models proposed were devised as part of the curriculum development in the author’s school explaining the process and planning of its implementation within a preconceived curriculum framework. Concludes with an appraisal of the benefits of the initiative and the wider implications of links between education and industry.