Can it be that ministers have taken fright at the flexibility it introduced the new curriculum for the early secondary years?
New NCSE board member Peter Gleick, brought on to help with the climate campaign, said it should be taught across the curriculum because it affects all other areas of science.
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While the "written" curriculum does not exhaust the meaning of curriculum, it is important because it represents the vision of the society.
Participants contributed feedback and ideas on how to use the tool and to incorporate it into the curriculum.
National Numeracy says it welcomes the government's prioritisation of maths, but it warns that the curriculum proposals "contain serious flaws" which run counter to the government's stated aims.
It had been heavily criticised by teaching unions and some groups, especially those involved in the arts, who said it would narrow the curriculum and that fewer young people would study art and music and other non-Bacc subjects as a result of it.
It is important that the curriculum reflects that, and it's correct these are recorded separately, to ensure transparency.
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In the past Cranfield has used the challenge as a tool in its marketing classes, but John Glen, the school's MBA programme director, says he wants to make broader use of it across the curriculum.
That's why the government has just announced plans to beef up the primary curriculum and why it's hoping to do the same in secondary education.
There is now an investigation into how the course was approved and why it was part of the curriculum.
Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
"If you just look at, for example, the history curriculum, it's all about sorts of skills... essentially constructing historical narratives, explanations, " he says.
The story is well-known in the North East, with many schools opting to teach it as part of the National Curriculum.
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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 new curriculum will make it compulsory to take part in "recognised and recognisable sports" and will set out requirements for "team outdoor and adventurous activity".
It says that the curriculum for maths is over-prescriptive with too narrow a focus and that geography is reduced to a list of "capes, bays, rivers and mountain ranges".
Recently, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, scrapped the current ICT curriculum saying it was "demotivating and dull" and that "inadequate grounding in computing was in danger of damaging Britain's economic prospects".
"Too many teachers lacked expertise in teaching sensitive and controversial issues, which resulted in some topics such as sexuality, mental health and domestic violence being omitted from the curriculum, " it says.
We will eventually see a resulting decline in the quality of what has been the best higher-education system in the world, as the people capable of designing a college curriculum and staffing it lose authority over the areas of their professional expertise.
It also highlights widespread concerns about the curriculum, in terms both of content and the pace at which it is taught.
Responding to Mr Tomlinson's comments, the Department for Education said it was aware of the pressures on the primary curriculum and was working with the QCA on the new guidance for schools.
MIT, the technology learning Mecca, announced this week it would make its entire curriculum freely available on the Internet over the next ten years.
But it was also complex to develop and it became obvious that, although ICT was developing at a tremendous rate, the curriculum was "dragging its heels - it simply could not keep up".
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The government said it was looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review.
The Curriculum for Excellence states it is important for the nation's prosperity that young people become confident users of a modern language.
That has made it easier for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, a quango that tries to keep standards constant, to compare different papers.
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And to make it easier to administer the curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying, they decided that all their children would take all the subjects.
At the same time, it has also been designed to suit the professional development needs of curriculum developers, education policy makers and authors of educational materials.
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The film was included in the school's curriculum after the majority of the governors voted in favour of it.
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