Bridget Phillipson, the shadow Education Secretary, will unveil plans to rival Rishi Sunak's maths to 18, making the subject an electoral battleground
Bridget Phillipson, the shadow Education Secretary, will unveil plans to rival Rishi Sunak’s maths to 18, making the subject an electoral battlegroundPrimary school children will be taught to manage their household budgets, exchange currencies and rank their favourite football teams under Labour’s plans to roll out “real world” maths teaching if it wins the election.
It would see primary school pupils given maths lessons on things like “household budgeting, currency exchange rates when going on holiday, sports league tables and cookery recipes,” Ms Phillipson will announce.Under the current national curriculum in England, children are taught skills such as multiplication and division as early as Year 1, plus measures to describe and compare different quantities including length, mass, volume, time and money.
promise to apply 20 per cent VAT on private school fees within its first year of power if it wins the election It comes as both Labour and the Conservatives gear up to make education a key political battleground in the run up to the next general election, expected in autumn 2024.keynote speech at the Conservatives’ annual party conference
The Government admitted the scheme would require “long-term reform,” and could take around a decade to deliver “in full”.
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