BRITAIN’s education secretary, John MacGregor, last week revealed new
plans to relax the requirements of national curriculum so that gifted pupils
can take extra subjects. But the plans will not allow any pupils to abandon
the core subjects of the curricu lum – science, mathematics and English
– before they reach the age of 16 years. The new plans affect only those
pupils aged between 14 and 16 years.
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