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Elite girls’ boarding school Roedean rewrites it history syllabus

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A private girls’ boarding school has rewritten its history syllabus in order to challenge the ‘white western narrative’ following the Black Lives Matter movement.  Roedean School, near Brighton in East Sussex, it set to move history classes away from Britain’s ‘island story’ and instead teach students about world events in a wider context. Pupils aged 11 … Read more

MELVYN BRAGG: To axe poetry from the syllabus has no rhyme or reason

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Rage, rage against the dying of the Light. These eight words from Dylan Thomas’s magnificent tirade against the unforgiving power of death are, and will forever be, memorable because they are part of a poem. For the word ‘light’ in that short masterpiece, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, we can now substitute … Read more