Prince Charles's elite teachers will bring back Chaucer and the Crusades
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Originally Posted by The Telegraph
The Prince of Wales is to create a cadre of elite teachers to bring neglected areas of study back to England’s schools.
Secondary school teachers will be taught by top historians and literary dons at Cambridge University as part of a two year master's degree in advanced subject teaching.
The course is part of The Prince’s Teaching Institute, a charity established by Prince Charles to protect traditional subjects from the rise of “trendy” teaching which puts more focus on “skills” than knowledge.
Teachers on the programme, which starts next year, will focus on areas of the school curriculum that have fallen out of fashion, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, in English, and the Crusades in history.
Adrian Barlow, the recently retired Cambridge International Examinations director who was instrumental in the development of the masters programme, said: “In English, for instance, there is a real shortage of teachers who are willing and confident to teach Chaucer or the Augustan poets.
“In history, there are major areas of study – the Crusades, for example – that have strong resonances for today but suffer because of the dominating influence of the 20th century on the curriculum.”
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