A member of the expert panel that advised the government's national curriculum review has criticised draft proposals for new primary programmes of study.
Education secretary Michael Gove this week invited a “public debate" over a new look core primary curriculum as he published draft programmes of study for English, maths and science.
The programmes include detailed age-related goals and specific content and knowledge across all three subjects.
However, Andrew Pollard, professor of education at the Institute of Education in London, has labelled the draft programmes as “overly detailed" and said that they “neglect the way real children learn". Prof Pollard was one of four academics appointed 18 months ago to the expert panel that has been advising the government on its review of the national curriculum.
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