This morning the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP, took to the airwaves to announce the launch of a review of the National Curriculum. Speaking on the Today programme, Mr Gove said that he wants to see a system which does not tell teachers ‘how to teach, it tells them what to teach.’ […]

In an article in today’s Guardian, Chris Waller from the Association for Citizenship Teaching and Andy Thornton, Chief Executive of the Citizenship Foundation, both argue that losing citizenship education from England’s National Curriculum would be a retrograde step that would negatively impact on young people’s political literacy. Also speaking to the Guardian, David Blunkett said: […]

Students from Biddenham International School and Sports College decided to add to the Democratic Life campaign by giving their own testimonies about why they feel that citizenship education is essential to the curriculum. They wrote letters in support of keeping citizenship education in the curriculum and in their own way described how it is important […]

After hearing about the Democratic Life’s campaign, teachers and administrators from Biddenham International School and Sports College felt that it was important to share their support for citizenship education. Mr. Doug Wise, Head of English at Biddenham showed his passion of the subject through connecting citizenship to the English curriculum; “It gives the texts we […]

The Democratic Life campaign is building a strong support base all the time. It was great to have a passionate blog from a student at Swansea University fall into my inbox today heavily advocating the importance of citizenship education. Zahid Raja highlighted the impact of the subject and went on to dispel the many myths […]