National curriculum reforms postponed to 2014
Proposed reforms of the national curriculum will take place a year later than planned, it has been announced.
Initially set to be rolled out in 2013, reforms of the education system will now be postponed to give time to consider feedback and more improvements.
Education secretary Michael Gove said: "The longer timescale will allow for further debate with everyone interested in creating a genuinely world-class education system."
He added that history, geography, design and technology, the arts and foreign languages will become compulsory for all pupils aged up to 16 years old.
Labour shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg commented that the curriculum should come above party politics in order to give confidence to those working in the sector that ministers will not constantly change systems to suit government ideologies.
Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, recently told officials that the national curriculum needs to be improved sooner rather than later.
