The conference also featured regional insights on education and skills, along with discussions on fostering global citizenship, curriculum reform, entrepreneurship education and industry needs.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

New secondary school curriculum options, including junior apprenticeships for 14 to 16 year-olds, are giving pupils more choice to meet their aspirations, and we will take curriculum reform further.

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The report calls the issue both "serious and urgent" and urges the government to use the ongoing curriculum reform to produce an "extended" version for students with the potential to study the subject at A-level.

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We will also reform the curriculum so that students get a better and broader range of options for study beyond the age of 14, developing their talents and challenging them to achieve more.

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"We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the National Curriculum to set out the essential knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it, " he said.

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Curriculum for Excellence sets a "rightly ambitious agenda" for reform in Scottish education, he added.

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This leads to the need to adopt a reform in the educational system, especially the adaptation of the curriculum to socialist values, along with measures to neutralize the competing capitalist ethos.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Setting out his schools White Paper to MPs on 24 November 2010, Mr Gove said plans to reform teacher training, boost discipline in schools and rewrite the National Curriculum would "provide the opportunity to become the world's leading education nation".

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