New climate change GCSE on ‘how to conserve the planet’ to be launched
While the broad outline of the course has already been drawn up in Whitehall, officials will now work with exam boards and the exams regulator, Ofqual, to…
Let’s stop fretting about how we teach Shakespeare
My grandfather, who worked down the mines, on retirement, decided to take an Open University degree in English literature. For him, the prospect of Milton’s Paradise Lost…
Music lessons for children are a necessity, not a luxury
The National Plan for Music Education (NPME), for example, was considered the start of an exciting new era when it was unveiled in 2011. The NPME established…