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To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether an independent school (a) teaching creationism and (b) failing to teach evolution as an established scientific theory would lead to it receiving a lower rating under the independent schools inspection framework; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether an independent school (a) teaching creationism and (b) failing to teach evolution as an established scientific theory would lead to it receiving a lower rating under the independent schools inspection framework; and if he will make a statement.
Registered independent schools must meet the independent school standards. These state that the curriculum must give pupils experience in
‘linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technological, human and social, physical, and aesthetic and creative education’.
Science must therefore be included in the curriculum. Ofsted and the independent school inspectorates inspect independent schools against these standards.
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.
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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]
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.