UK will teach diverse, non-Western science

Britain's Labour government is going to stress non-Western science to  reflect the “diversities of our society,” reports Craig Simpson for MSN.

Labour's education plan will destroy social mobility for working-class students, writes Tim Stanley in The Telegraph. Under the Tories, schools raised standards for academics and behavior, he writes. English students rose significantly in international rankings. Labour wants to roll back discipline reforms, "liberalise the National Curriculum, with less reliance upon rote-learning and exams and give parents fewer choices to opt out.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he wants to help the working class, writes Stanley. "But nothing hurts the poor more than school classes disrupted by bad behaviour, or wooly curricula that reject knowledge for self-expression (can’t spell your own name, but can finger paint your emotions)."

"Ministers are facing union pressure to make the curriculum more enjoyable for disadvantaged pupils after figures showed that school suspensions and expulsions have reached a record high," reports Oliver Wright in The Times. There's too much focus on English and math, not enough opportunity for "less academic" students to take arts classes, they say.