The introduction of the English Baccalaureate - which will be awarded to pupils gaining good GCSE passes in maths, English, two science subjects, a language and history or geography - would increase the uptake of history, he added.
Tyler Priest, an associate professor of history and geography at the University of Iowa, argues for increased offshore drilling.
For example, on April, 2012, the New York Board of Regents formally considered a proposal to eliminate the Regents Examination in Global History and Geography as a graduation requirement precisely because it was the most frequently failed of the five Regents exams.
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Children project foresees the creation of multi-media educational programmes in History and Geography of Russia for high school based on the website www.rusnations.ru.
With geography frequently at odds with the accidents of history, fringe towns in different nations are often closer to each other physically and culturally than the capitals they report to.
Silvia Alderoqio, a teacher and writer of schoolbooks on Buenos Aires' history and geography, conducts a tour of the city's centre.
On the curriculum is English, maths, history, geography, combined sciences and French with the option of taking International GCSEs.
Still, an undercurrent of mistrust and paranoia, exacerbated by a widespread ignorance of Sudan's geography and history, tends to infuse Arabs' misunderstanding of the country.
Now it is Liverpool's turn to showcase all the advantages that history, geography and generous dollops of public funds have given it.
For the second lesson of Super Thursday, turn now from history to geography.
Our geography, our history, our culture, our climate, the talents of our people can be unleashed to create extraordinary opportunities in tourism, in trade, in industry, in energy, in water, in so many areas.
Though geography is offered as a sobering up after the intoxications of end-of-history ideology, it soon reveals itself as another brandy bottle, with intoxications of its own.
Alongside sciences, the English Baccalaureate comprises English, maths and humanities - which is a choice of history or geography - and a language.
Language, geography and history have combined to isolate Brazil from its Spanish-speaking neighbours on the far side of the Amazon rainforest and the Parana basin, let alone from the wider world.
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.
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