National curriculum changes
Here’s my take on the following UK education story…
** Curriculum to match world’s best **
A revised national curriculum for schools in England is to be published later, with the aim of catching up with the world’s best education systems.
I’m all for improvements in the curriculum but am also always wary of politicians making crowd pleasing statements. How can such changes realistically be implemented by 2014?
As for the content, politicians should leave well alone. Let the educational community decide on content; teachers are the people on the ground who best understand what is required and / or possible. It also brings into question the whole system of academies. If academies are now the majority of secondary schools why on earth are they not expected to follow any new curriculum.
In the long term, with an increased number of academies, won’t changes in certain aspects of the curriculum be pointless?
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