Our ninth guest lecturer was Jane Davidson, she was once the Minister for Education and who is now part of Trinity College. She spoke to us about the history of education within the government, this lecture was very interesting as she was once a very influential person on education.
Firstly she went through the national curriculum that was brought out in 1983, she explained the different areas that were to be studied and the exams and SAT’s that pupils were to undertake due to this.
Jane then discussed the change of government which led to the curriculum being criticised for being structured and not very educational for children, due to this the referendum for the Natioanl Assembly was brought out in 1999.
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