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“The EU has been cut from the National Curriculum amid fears that current lessons are effectively biased towards European integration,” thunders The Daily Telegraph on its front page following news that the UK’s geography education syllabus has dropped all references to the economic and political bloc. The document replaces the curriculum introduced under the previous Labour government in which primary and secondary school pupils were required to study the EU. The daily reports that Whitehall officials believe that as the Union is a political and economic group, it is should not be included in geography classes.
New history and citizenship syllabuses make reference to the UK’s relationship with Europe but make no mention of the EU itself. The disclosure is likely to delight Conservative Eurosceptics just weeks after David Cameron promised an in/out referendum on Europe if the Tories win the next general election.
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