If this isn’t dumbing down, I don’t know what is:

A major review of the curriculum for England’s primary schools suggests that six broad “areas of learning” could replace individual subjects…

It also calls for children to learn more about well-being, happiness and healthy living. (BBC)

And what are these so-called “areas of learning”?

• understanding English, communication and languages
• mathematical understanding; scientific and technological understanding
• scientific and technological understanding
• human, social and environmental understanding
• understanding physical health and well-being
• understanding the arts and design

As part of this, it suggests that our kids are taught in less depth about, well, anything. Including about our history and about the world in which we live. Instead they’d prefer to teach them IT stuff which they are almost certainly better at than their teachers.

What a load of rubbish this report contains.