The current curriculum is tired, restricting and out of date.
The current curriculum already requires sex-education teachers to include abstinence along with topics like contraception.
And the current curriculum cannot prepare British students to work at the very forefront of technological change.
Under the current curriculum, pupils have to learn times tables up to 10 by the age of 11.
Schools, teachers and industry leaders have all told us that the current curriculum is too off-putting, too demotivating, too dull.
But as I look at the current curriculum, I wonder what chance creativity has in a control culture such as New Labour's?
In secondary schools, the current curriculum for 11 to 14-year-olds includes a recommended list of authors and demands that pupils study Shakespeare.
There was little media pressure for change, and the sheer scale of scrapping the current curriculum and thinking up a computer science equivalent was just too daunting.
Educators say the current curriculum is weak in biology, leading to a high failure rate in the sciences among high school students across the state.
"The current curriculum fails to give students even imperfect answers" to their legitimate questions about recent economic events, he says.Changes are coming.
Teachers need to be better trained on how to implement the current curriculum and teach religion in a way that is not dogmatic, said Ms. Chodidjah.
