Tes: £1.5m national programme will train a teacher from every secondary school in England
Hundreds of schools across the country are to become specialist centres of Holocaust education under a national scheme launched today.
The plan, which will be rolled out in 300 schools, forms part of the new £1.5 million Holocaust education programme run by London University’s Institute of Education.
As The TES revealed in November, the Holocaust Education Development Programme will provide extensive specialist training for 3,500 teachers – one from every secondary in England.
The first cohort of 150 will attend a one-day workshop in London at the beginning of November and a second workshop three weeks later. This will be followed by similar sessions in Liverpool. The training will then be introduced across the country over the next two years.
From these teachers, 300 will be able to follow up their training with a masters degree module in Holocaust education. Their schools will then become designated beacons of excellence in the subject.
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Telegraph: University students are ignorant about some of the most significant events in history because teaching trendy topics and generic skills has sidelined the topic in schools, a lecturer has warned.
Professor Derek Matthews was so surprised to discover that the students in his economics class at Cardiff University had such a poor grasp of British history that he decided to conduct an experiment.
He set five easy questions, which he believed ‘every 18-year-old should know’, and over three years 284 first-year university students took the test.
The results confirmed his fears.
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