The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP, has recently announced that he is reviewing the National Curriculum subject by subject.
This unprecedented research will give rise to a series of recommendations to advise policy-makers, especially in countries that wish to introduce this subject in their curriculum.
Sir Michael didn't come from a musical family and, when he was at school, music wasn't taken seriously as a subject on the curriculum of England's schools.
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.
In terms of education, as you know, the last Conservative government introduced legislation which meant that the Welsh language was a core subject in the National Curriculum - that was supported by all political parties.
Almost every subject on the Accelerated Christian Curriculum, which Grace uses, has a Christian slant.
The all-party parliamentary group is lobbying for the subject to become a key element of the national curriculum.
It is not the subject matter that needs to change, just the curriculum.
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The Association for Citizenship Teaching says it understands the subject will be made non-statutory in the coming curriculum shake-up.
The QCA's subject officer for history, Jerome Freeman, said that in the curriculum for 11 to 14 year olds and at GCSE and A-level there were options for looking at the politics of the recent past.
His place in the curriculum is established, but he is hardly popular as a subject of teaching or scholarship.
Ministers are committed to a slimmer more flexible curriculum to be focused on the basics and organised around traditional subject disciplines.
That is why we are looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review to ensure that pupils are engaged and inspired by the subject.
The curriculum is also increasingly focused on developing pupils' skills, with a reduced role for specific subject content, while global citizenship is also a central part of the thinking behind the revisions.
The report calls the issue both "serious and urgent" and urges the government to use the ongoing curriculum reform to produce an "extended" version for students with the potential to study the subject at A-level.
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