Thousands of pupils are being allowed to drop history at the age of 13, according to a major study which is warning that the subject faces extinction in some state secondary schools.
"Critics of school history should pay more heed to the challenges of achieving all three of these aims when teaching about empire, with often only one lesson a week, and with pupils able to drop history at the age of 13".
The survey comes after a report from the Historical Association this week questioned the quality of history lessons in state secondaries more generally, finding that thousands of pupils were being allowed to drop history at the age of 13 with the curriculum being squeezed into two years.
This took her grade from a U to an A, and meant her overall grade for the two-paper AS climbed from a D to an A. However, Lara had already had to drop history A-level by the time the upgrade came through earlier this month.
The only sane response, of course, is that buying the deluxe items should be postponed until the day every school had textbooks less than 20 years old, or when high schools did not have to drop history electives because of budget cuts, or that science labs and band rooms were equipped with the right tools and teachers.
After all, doctors may choose to be dropped into history; patients do not.
For his third round, during which he struck birdies at the 1st, 7th and 12th (and bogeys at 5 and 8), the rain ceased and the wind dropped, but history kept on intimating that his chance has already passed.
This variance was estimated from the pressure drop history above the location of the pressure sensor recorded continuously after the stepwise disturbance in the velocity of the fluidizing medium.
This paper presents a probabilistic model to describe, as a result of patchy cleaning, the area distribution of cake patches with different ages, the thickness distribution, the velocity distribution, and the pressure drop history.
21 Exclusion criteria included ocular allergies, contact lens wear, continuous use of eye drops, history of eye surgery and systemic or ocular diseases that might interfere with tear film production or function.
