File photo Image: Shutterstock/ABO PHOTOGRAPHY File photo Image: Shutterstock/ABO PHOTOGRAPHY EDUCATION MINISTER JOE McHugh has requested that History be given “special core status” in the Junior Cycle school curriculum.
McHugh said he made the decision after “giving full consideration” to a review of the optional status of History which was carried out by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment . “My view is that our education system is responsive and progressive enough to allow for the Junior Cycle Framework to be structured in such a way for history to have a special core status,” McHugh said.There has been much debate about the status of History in schools in the last year, with many people arguing it such be a compulsory subject.
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