Ministers are to scrap the draft and syllabus just two months after it was published amid claims that the document prioritised ‘life skills’ over rigorous disciplines such as engineering.
The Department for Education will review subject requirements - with input from- after admitting that the version drawn up earlier this year was ‘dumbed down’.
It represents the first significant U-turn on the new following a series of hostile attacks on the proposed changes in recent months. The move comes a week after a consultation into the reforms closed.
The D&T curriculum was criticised after it emerged that pupils would be expected to receive lessons in sewing and knitting, cultivating plants for ‘decorative displays’, bike maintenance and extensive cookery classes.
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