Teach climate change throughout the curriculum, reform school accountability and cut assessment burden, argues England’s largest exam board
Flooding in Bangladesh. The AQA board argues that climate change should be taught more broadly across subjects in schools. Pic: iStock/Getty Images
Submission by AQA board to DfE's curriculum and assessment inquiry offers wide-ranging critique of set-up.
Climate change and sustainability should be taught across the curriculum, England’s largest exam board has argued, while key school accountability measures should also be drastically reformed and the number of assessments pupils take should be reduced.
These were arguments put forward by the AQA board, among a host of submissions to the government’s curriculum and assessment review, seen by Education Uncovered, which seem to be calling for a more radical overhaul of current arrangements than seems to be on the table.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 23 April 2025
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