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Ministers say Labour's own primary curriculum review was a 'totaldisaster', and proposed replacing traditional subjects such ashistory and geography with ill-defined 'areas of learning'. It wasdue to come into force in 2010 but was halted by Mr Gove. Now, new draft programmes of study for maths and science will bepublished by the Department for Education this week, following areport by an expert panel. Mr Gove says the rules will 'restore rigour', essential if thenation wants to remain competitive in a world dominated bytechnology. The changes, he argues, will help raise standards and ensure allchildren have a good grasp of the basics, equipping them with theknowledge and skills to succeed.
The new requirements in maths are described as 'much morechallenging' than the current National Curriculum. As well as the new emphasis on the learning of times tables, itstresses the importance of pupils becoming fluent in mental andwritten arithmetic. There is also a greater focus on 'numberbonds', simple addition and subtraction facts that pupils aretaught to recognise and use instantly – for example, 9+9 = 18or 16-7 = 9. Pupils will be expected to be able to add, subtract, multiply anddivide decimals such as 32.4 or 4.78 by the end of primary school. This is a significant increase in challenge from the currentNational Curriculum, which does not cover multiplication anddivision of decimals until secondary education.
The Government is publishing the draft programmes of study for aninformal consultation. Ministers expect there to be debate aroundwhat is appropriate at different ages. The Department for Education will consider the public response andredraft the programme before re-publishing it later in the year fora formal consultation. The final programme will be introduced in schools from September 2014.
Simon Walker, of the Institute of Directors, said: 'The UK faces achallenge in education which it is currently failing to meet. Wecannot duck the question – a world-class education system isvital to the UK's long-term economic competitiveness. 'Our curriculum, teaching and qualifications must be a match forthe best in the world. However, international comparisons withhigh-performing countries have made it manifestly clear that weneed to raise the bar.' But Chris Keates, of teachers' union the NASUWT, said theGovernment's intention to 'impose a highly prescriptive programmeof study on teachers' would 'shackle their professionaldiscretion'.
They are part of moves from Mr Gove to return to the traditionalprinciples of the three Rs while reducing the time spent on otherschool subjects. Students will be read poems by their teacher and be expected tolearn and recite them from Year 1, which they enter at five yearsold. Children in the next year will have 'to build up a repertoire ofpoems learnt by heart and recite some of these, with appropriateintonation to make the meaning clear'. Primary schools could offer lessons in Mandarin, Latin and Greek aswell as French, German and Spanish. Foreign language learning iscurrently only compulsory in secondary schools, and one in 10primaries offers no language training.
The move is an effort to arrest the decline in the number ofstudents taking foreign language at GCSE. 43 per cent of GCSE pupils took a language in 2010, compared with75 per cent ten years ago. The previous Labour government ended compulsory language learningafter the age of 14 in 2004. Nearly 40,000 11-year-olds every year currently leave primaryschool with the reading ability of a seven-year-old. I am an expert from Chemicals, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as silk amino acid , 22 kt jewelry.
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