A future-fit syllabus and a forward-thinking approach to learning

Our CA syllabus is future-fit and keeps pace with advances in technology, data and sustainability.

Here we outline the benefits of our learning approach to you and your students. You’ll also find more detail of how it works in practice, including our updated three-year terms plan, our learning and assessment schedules, and what it all means for each level of the syllabus.

Some of the features and benefits of our approach

The details of our new approach

Rolling three-year terms plan

Our syllabus is structured across a rolling three-year terms plan.

For Knowledge and Skills there are four terms per calendar year and each term is 12 weeks long. From 2026 the Integration level will have three terms per calendar year, and each Integration term is 15 weeks per term.

With our three-year terms plan, you have a long view of your students’ learning journey and the certainty to plan. You also have control over your students’ progress through the qualification, you can choose when they’re in the office, focused on work and clients, and when they’re given leave to study.

Detailed learning and assessment schedules

At term level, all courses and assessments follow a schedule that’s designed to enhance the learner journey and provide the certainty to plan. Some of the features of this schedule include holding workshops, mock and final summative assessments on set days and set weeks each term, and the addition of a ‘consolidation week’ at the Knowledge level.

The Knowledge level - the details

The Skills level - the details

The Integration level - the details

The Integration level combines large portions of face-to-face delivery with fewer elements of digital course content.

There is an emphasis on group work and peer-to-peer learning while students prepare for the final summative assessments.