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Climate change dropped from National Curriculum?
Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 08:18
by biffvernon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 ... nt-adviser
Tim Oates, whose wide-ranging review of the curriculum for five- to 16-year-olds will be published later this year, said it should be up to schools to decide whether – and how – to teach climate change, and other topics about the effect scientific processes have on our lives.
In an interview with the Guardian, Oates called for the national curriculum "to get back to the science in science". "We have believed that we need to keep the national curriculum up to date with topical issues, but oxidation and gravity don't date," he said.
That will be oxidation of fossil carbon he was talking about then?
Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 15:01
by raspberry-blower
Re: Climate change dropped from National Curriculum?
Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 20:42
by Peter1010
That will be oxidation of fossil carbon he was talking about then?
+1
Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 21:02
by Mean Mr Mustard
Oi! I'm the Mash Quoter 'round these 'ere parts!
Re: Climate change dropped from National Curriculum?
Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 22:04
by biffvernon
bicyclebloke wrote:That will be oxidation of fossil carbon he was talking about then?
+1
Well that certainly deserves a warm welcome to PowerSwitch
Not the Daily Mash, I'm afraid, but the Daily Mail article on this has spawned a right climate denial-fest. Mail readers certainly seem to have missed out on science education.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... sroom.html
Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 22:21
by biffvernon