Making history compulsory may damage junior-cycle reform, review finds
“Minister for Education Joe McHugh is set to be told by the State’s curriculum advisers that making history compulsory for junior-cycle students could undermine recent education reforms. Mr McHugh last year sought a review on whether history should be an optional subject in the junior cycle after concerns that some students would never learn about key moments in national history …” (more)
[Carl O’Brien, Irish Times, 1 May]
Tags: history, Joe McHugh, junior cycle, Michael D Higgins