Sentences with phrase «statutory subject in schools»

Commenting on the letter, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said: «We have long campaigned to make PSHE a statutory subject in our schools, and welcome further calls from prominent voices within parliament.

The chairs of five Parliamentary Select Committees have written to the Secretary of State for Education, Justine Greening to call for Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PHSE) and Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) to be made a statutory subject in schools.

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The British Humanist Association (BHA), whose Campaigns Manager is a member of the advisory group of the Sex Education Forum and has long campaigned for statutory SRE in schools, has welcomed the reports, while stressing the need for the subject to be comprehensive and inclusive.

The news follows a report published by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee in September exposing «the shocking scale of sexual harassment and sexual violence» in schools, and recommending that «PSHE and SRE are made statutory subjects» to address the problem.

Reacting to the publication of the review, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: «Whilst of course we welcome the recommendation that teaching about religions in schools remains a statutory requirement, we continue to support the addition of RE, the contemporary subject in which such teaching occurs, to the national curriculum, which would end the pattern of varying quality across schools that currently exists.

Green MP Caroline Lucas is reintroducing a bill to make personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) a statutory subject in all state schools in England.

Lucas» proposed Bill would require PSHE to be a statutory subject for all state - funded schools in England and Wales and for the lessons to include Sex and Relationships Education (SRE).

In response to a Neil Carmichael, who called on the Education Secretary to make the subjects compulsory, Nicky Morgan said: «The vast majority of schools already make provision for PSHE and while the government agrees that making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40 per cent of PSHE teaching is less than good.

The Design and Technology Association (DATA) supports schools, academies, colleges, initial teacher training and other educational establishments to enable employers to meet their statutory obligations for H&S training for all colleagues working in the subject of Design and Technology (D&T).

Criticising the fact that guidance for schools on sex and relationships education has not been updated since 2000, she said that PSHE as a statutory subject should include age - appropriate sex and relationships education and pledged that introducing compulsory PSHE in schools would be «one of the first things Labour does in government».

We will continue to campaign for action to make the broader subject of SRE statutory in all schools».

The education secretary today released responses to the Education Select Committee's report from February, which recommended the Department for Education (DfE) «develop a workplan for introducing age - appropriate PSHE and sex education as statutory subjects in primary and secondary schools».

«At key stage 4, the government does not believe it is right that every student should have to study an arts subject, but all pupils in maintained schools have a statutory entitlement to be able to study an arts subject if they wish.»

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The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment is a statutory body, whose function is to advise the Minister of Education and Skills in matters relating to the curriculum for early childhood education, primary and post-primary schools, and the assessment procedures employed in schools and examinations on subjects that are part of the curriculum.