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Is this the end of inclusive education?, Notebook

Is this the end of inclusive education?

Late last year, I was horrified to read that a conference of sports medicine specialists was calling for PE to become a compulsory subject in schools. Worse, they wanted it to be a tested subject along with English and Maths, at every key stage of education.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 17 August 2012 at 2:00 am

Two hours of sport per day is unrealistic, Notebook

Two hours of sport per day is unrealistic

Following the recent success at the Olympics, there has been a huge increase in the amount of rhetoric regarding the sporting future of the education system.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 13 August 2012 at 2:13 pm

For some children, PE lessons are far from enjoyable, Health

For some children, PE lessons are far from enjoyable

At the height of Olympic fever, it’s all well and good to say that children should be doing more sport and that state schools should add more hours of PE into the curriculum, but I think we are overegging the pudding, here.

By | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 10 August 2012 at 3:03 pm

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