Exam boards and DoE
Reaction to new curriculum review – November 2025
In the Times today, 6 November, Michael Gove the architect of the existing National Curriculum, predictably weighed in with a blistering condemnation of Briget Philipson’s planned reforms. Curiously he left…
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History in the new curriculum review – November 2025
While you weep at the demise of the teaching of fronted adverbials! ( ha, ha) you will take comfort in the fact that the government’s review of the curriculum does…
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Changes for the 2021 GCSE History examination announced by AQA today
AQA GCSE History (8145) Students entering for GCSE History exams next summer will have a choice of studies with one compulsory study. This means that in summer 2021, AQA GCSE…
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Using quadrants to answers exam questions at GCSE and A level
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. Faced with an exam question such as How far do you agree with the view that, in the years 1933–39, the New Deal…
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GCSE history: Answering the question set , not the one they would prefer to answer.
Many of you teaching GCSE will be familiar with the issue. Your students answer the question they think the examiner will ask and the one they’ve prepared for., not the…
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DfE criticises types of history teaching. Are you their target?
Nick Gibb, Minister for Schools has again sounded off about the virtues of formal didactic teaching of knowledge and has lampooned discovery learning. Hiding behind the views Professor Willingham, he…
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All content on Keystage history is written and quality assured by Neil Thompson, a former history teacher, county history adviser and Ofsted inspector with more than 30 years’ experience in history education.