Telegraph – Graeme Paton
“Mrs McCabe, director of the PTI, insisted pupils’ grasp of science had suffered following the introduction of new-style syllabuses in 2006 designed to make the subject more relevant to pupils’ lives. . . . In a speech to the charity’s latest teacher training course, in Crewe, she said there was now a ‘growing weight of opinion that subject knowledge should come before social issues.'”(more)