UK education reform unscientific and implemented too fast says Royal Society
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.022701
Science : Last week, the Royal Society issued a report that says the government implementation of science education reform is unscientific. The changes have come so fast, one after another, that it’s impossible to know whether anything has worked or just added to the problem, the report says. Moreover, new measures on the horizon, such as a high school science “diploma,” are being rushed in without appropriate testing, the Royal Society warns. Curriculum reform, it concludes, should be managed by fully independent bodies, not politicians with short-term interests. “We strongly felt [reform] should be taken away from immediate political gain so as to get a more measured response,” says polymer scientist Julia Higgins of Imperial College London, chair of the working group that produced the report.
