Written question asked by Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) on Thursday, 18 October 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 October 2012. It was answered by David Laws (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 5 December 2012 on behalf of the Department for Education.
Free Schools
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to ensure that the teaching of evolution is taught in free schools.
[124379]
- Answer
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Free Schools are subject to Ofsted inspections in the same way as all other state funded schools. From January 2012 inspections have had a stronger focus on quality of teaching. Failure to teach evolution as an extensively evidenced theory would affect Ofsted's assessment of the school.
To formalise our expectation that evolution is included in the science curriculum in Free Schools we will include a requirement to teach evolution as a comprehensive, coherent and extensively evidenced theory in future funding agreements for Free Schools.
Secondary information
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- Reference
- 124379; 554 c777W
- Session
- 2012-13
- Subjects
- Evolution Free schools
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