Government to reinstate climate change in school curriculum
Education Minister Erica Stanford has directed the Ministry of Education to restore climate change content to junior school curriculums after it was removed.
Climate change will be reintroduced into year 0-10 science and social sciences curriculums. Education Minister Erica Stanford says she was unaware of why the words
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Newsroom
Labour won’t commit to reinstating climate change in curriculums
Labour has criticised the Govt over removing climate change from the curriculum, yet refuses to promise it will restore it if elected
Stuff
Minister confirms climate change will be in junior curriculums
Education Minister Erica Stanford has directed the Ministry of Education to put the words “climate change” back into year 0-10 curriculums for science and social sciences.
Newsroom
Govt to reinstate climate change in curriculum u-turn
Education Minister Erica Stanford says it was not her decision for climate change to be removed from science and social science curriculums The post Govt to reinstate climate change in curriculum u-turn appeared first on Newsroom .
RNZ
Govt considers u-turn on climate change in school curriculum
The education minister says climate change was included when she looked at the final version of the curriculums before they were published.
1News
Govt considers U-turn on climate change in school curriculum
Erica Stanford said she was unsure why the words "climate change" had been deleted from the final document as she wasn't involved in writing the curriculum.