§ Mr. LesterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how his Department utilises the resources and information from the Foreign Office to teach British schoolchildren about world affairs.
§ Mr. EggarIt is for schools to determine how best to deliver the statutory requirements of the national curriculum so as to meet the needs of all pupils. It is they who are therefore charged with selecting the most effective teaching methods and the resources and information necessary to support them.
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§ Mr. LesterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what scope there is within the national curriculum for world development issues to be studied in British schools.
§ Mr. EggarThe national curriculum allows ample scope for world development issues to be studied. National curriculum geography is the main vehicle for this, although other subjects may play a part. The attainment targets and programmes of study in geography afford a balanced perspective of development—its causes, constraints and effects—in a wide range of countries at different levels of economic development.