Schools would also be permitted to offer subjects outside the National Curriculum, and given funds to back up the teaching of those subjects.
Mike Lynch's main concern, however, was about the teaching of STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - in secondary schools where he felt we were falling behind.
The Education Secretary, David Blunkett, said on Sunday that he would be speaking to the Office for Standards in Education about evaluating the effectiveness of single sex teaching of some subjects in co-educational schools.
Titles apart, I have spent over 40 years in teaching a variety of subjects, strongly resisting all forms of specialization.
But stopping undergraduate teaching of important but costly subjects is not what the government wants.
We'd be able to use this data to ask who was the best GP for our family, examine the quality of teaching in individual subjects at local schools, and to find out what had happened to the bloke who was arrested after breaking into a car on the street.
Schools in the United States have never viewed their mission as limited to the teaching of core academic or vocational subjects.
Ofsted has been campaigning for schools to make more use of whole-class teaching, whose neglect it regards as one of the reasons for under-achievement in other subjects.
This means discussions on such subjects as preaching, teaching the faith, care of the poor and sick, and support for the church's clergy and the families that make up their congregations, Dolan said.
Since 1998, Bittermann has been assistant adjunct professor of communication at the American University of Paris, teaching courses in broadcast news and documentary film, among other subjects.
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The training will, first of all, enable teachers to make an effective use of the Internet, to easily find and deal with information related to their teaching subjects.
Rhys Williams from NUT Cymru said that while they believed the new subjects were a good idea, they were concerned whether teachers would be capable of teaching every single subject.
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