Study suggests curriculum 'overloaded' and 'narrow'
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By Dorothy Lepkowska
A study from Cambridge University found that teachers had been forced into a ‘tick-list’ approach to teaching, which had resulted in pupils being coached to pass exams and tests.
However, Cambridge Assessment warned against making wholesale changes based on international models as this would have to take into account local contexts and could lead to ‘unnecessary disruption’ to the education system.
Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, who wrote the foreword to the resear...
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