Nord Anglia had to spend months designing a joint English and Chinese curriculum for its new school in Ningbo City.
On the curriculum is English, maths, history, geography, combined sciences and French with the option of taking International GCSEs.
But the history curriculum in English schools seems to have sacrificed a sense of the narrative history of the "common people".
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But the government says it is already a compulsory National Curriculum subject and the English Baccalaureate is to encourage more students to take up geography and history in addition to RE - not instead of it.
The curriculum was demanding, including instruction in English and mathematics, as well as religion.
Pupils at schools where the arts were integrated into the curriculum showed stronger performance in maths, English, critical thinking and verbal skills, he added.
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Since 2001, they have been supposed to register with the authorities, whereupon the government is meant to help them expand their curriculum to include maths, science, English and computer studies.
How much is down to low priority that the language has in some English-medium schools, despite being a compulsory part of the curriculum?
The introduction of the National Curriculum in the 1980s meant that all young people studied English, Maths and Science up to the age of 16.
When Lolo was sent away on compulsory military duty, Dunham went to work for U.S. AID, then developed a curriculum, hired teachers and began classes for businessmen to learn English.
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Ministers say the curriculum will be slimmed down, but there will be "detailed programmes of study" for English, maths and science that will set out the "core knowledge" expected.
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