Science, which has been kicked about since GCSEs replaced O-Levels in 1986, is in for another shake-up. The latest review of the curriculum – commissioned by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson – is set to recommend that all schools must teach separate sciences to children in Years 10 and 11. That should be a good thing. ‘Triple science’ won’t be mandatory, but it will become a statutory entitlement alongside the usual diet of ‘double science’. If a child wants to learn an extra dollop of science then that will be their right. What’s not to like about that?

Schools are so hard up that they cannot afford to pay for supply teachers to stand in so that their teachers can be trained to teach physics properly

The inevitable wet blanket is likely to be the perennial shortage of physics t

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