The DFES Educational Review
“ALL children need to learn BLACK HISTORY. We are forced to learn everyone else’s, why not our own ... and not the emphasis on the last 500 years of enslavement. Black History did not start with slavery, in fact it ended there. We have thousands of years pre (slavery) history- great civilizations etc, that could and should be taught in schools.”
Kat – Parent and Activist
Please do not waste time, sign the <petition> today and circulate to your friends so that they too can sign.
The NIEC represents parents, students, teachers, educationalists and consultants united on the concern of African and Caribbean underachievement in the UK. We would like to see more cultural diversity included in the Curriculum. This should include Black History, which has contributed significantly to world history and its development, not just slavery, but inventions, scientists and literature. We would like to see such cultural diversity embedded in the English, Mathematics and Science curriculums. We think this will have a positive impact on all children’s learning and development in school and give a better understanding and accuracy to the history of the world and its development to date. The NIEC defines Black History as the all encompassing experiences, events and contributions of the peoples of Africa wherever their descents sojourns have placed them on the planet.
<Click here to sign the Petition>
<Click here to read the initial NIEC letter submitted to the Department for Education and Skills, April 2007>
<Click here to read the DFES response to the NIEC’s initial letter>
<The DfES Secondary curriculum review statutory consultation report>
