Wellbeing to be taught in schools
Press Review 4 September 2007
The education secretary is today set to give the go-ahead to lessons in happiness, wellbeing and good manners being taught in all state secondary schools.
Curriculum set for shake-up
Press Review 13 July 2007
Schools secretary Ed Balls has set out plans to revamp the national curriculum, with plans to focus on debt management and five-minute lesson bursts featuring heavily.
Basic skills encouraged in curriculum review
News Article 12 July 2007
Schools secretary Ed Balls has unveiled changes to the secondary school curriculum.
Debt lessons for teenagers
Press Review 9 July 2007
The Times reports on changes to the national curriculum which will see pupils taught debt management.
RE lessons 'to boost cohesion'
Press Review 18 June 2007
The schools watchdog said yesterday that a national curriculum for religious education could help to boost community cohesion.
Curriculum 'has been corrupted'
Press Review 11 June 2007
The Telegraph highlights a report by think tank Civitas which says that the national curriculum has been "stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference".
Straw's history lesson scorned
Press Review 1 May 2007
Jack Straw's calls for history to be taught in schools as a common "British story" have been dismissed as "too little, too late" by leading historians.
Overuse of school tests slammed
Press Review 29 March 2007
A former head of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has accused ministers of "wilful blindness" in ignoring calls for an inquiry into the use of school tests.
Secondary curriculum set for reform
News Article 5 February 2007
The education secretary has welcomed proposals to reform the school curriculum for 11 to 14-year-olds.
School curriculum set for reform
Press Review 5 February 2007
The Times splashes on changes to be announced to the national curriculum later today.
Pupils to get climate change lessons
Press Review 2 February 2007
Climate change and global warming will be put at the heart of the school timetable under radical proposals to shake up the way that geography is taught.
'Britishness' lessons planned
Press Review 26 January 2007
The education secretary has announced the introduction of new school lessons in British history and national identity.
Teaching Britishness
Policy Consultation 25 January 2007
ePolitix.com Stakeholders and others respond to news that schools will be required to improve their teaching of 'Britishness'.
Johnson seeks school focus on tolerance
News Article 25 January 2007
Alan Johnson has pledged to improve the teaching of citizenship in England's schools.
Johnson pushes education until 18
Press Review 6 December 2006
The education secretary is reported to have asked officials to begin working on a green paper on compelling young people to stay in education or training until the age of 18.
