UK plans to make some much-needed changes to its learning syllabus for schools. I wonder why the deficiencies occurred in the first place and am glad that changes are to be made to restore the deficiencies.
The topics to be learnt by students are monarchy history, literary works in the Canon and mental sums. These should have never left the syllabus at all. Monarchy history is part of UK's nationalism, something every citizen should know, and the literary works serve only to reinforce UK's reputation as the country best known for what literature really is, which means the works are worth studying. Mental sums are really basic tools one should equip himself with.
It seems that for more than 10 years, primary and secondary students have been studying trendy and practical-based subjects. Should not such subjects be greatly included in the syllabus for older students, say at least pre-university ones? If they have to be included at such low levels of the academic syllabus, they should consist of only a small percentage. As a result of this unbalanced focus, the lower-level students have little understanding of basic school subjects. What a tragedy. Indeed, "the existing national curriculum embodies poverty of aspiration"!
How can the famous prime minister of UK Winston Churchill be removed from the school syllabus? It is such an insult to the efforts he made to secure the country during the war.The geography syllabus includes only UK itself. It may be patriotic in nature but is limiting in knowledge. Knowing about the geography of the world the students live in will be a tremendous benefit to them.
Yes, yes. Mr Gove's statement of granting the students access to great authors like Lord Byron and John Keats, and UK's history is well-said!
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