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[heliona]

Physicists, take note.

This is just ridiculous, as far as I am concerned! If students are not taught how physics actually works, then any who decide to take it for A-level or at university are going to get a nasty shock! I'm very, very glad that I finished school when I did!

Physics 'dumbed down' in GCSEs

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[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

I think it's quite a good idea actually. It looks like this is a separate course to "general" or "applied" science, and pupils doing it are encouraged to do a real science too. It sounds a bit like the Scottish system, where you have physics, chemistry, biology and general science (the latter being very basic and only done by foundation pupils).

So I reckon this new "21st Century Science" will either be taken on it's own by pupils with no intention of continuing in science, or in conjunction with a real science as an additional and beneficial course by those who do intend to continue.

What I find more worrying is that less than quarter of schools in England teach the three sciences as separate subjects at GCSE. That is a bad thing.

[tara]

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