It seems to be “open season” on the secondary curriculum again. On the one hand, we have the current consultation on the key stage 4 curriculum, and on the other, a host of other, apparently essential, topics are being suggested as vital to ensuring that young people are properly educated and prepared for life after school.
Recently, we have had the announcement that cookery should become compulsory for all from primary school to age 14. It is not that long ago that cookery rooms throughout the land were removed and their space reallocated to design technology. We no longer have a sufficient supply of trained cookery teachers and its successor, food technology, is not the same subject.
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