Science Education In Schools

EDM number 243 in 2010-12, proposed by Julian Huppert on 16/06/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Schools and Science.

That this House notes the value and importance of science in the schools' curriculum; further notes the importance of the specific inclusion of evolution and natural selection in the schools' curriculum; regrets that evolution has been dropped from reforms to the primary school curriculum, along with other reforms proposed; further regrets the inclusion of creationist and other pseudo-scientific theories in the teaching of science in some schools; and urges the Government to ensure that all schools teach and promote science and the scientific method and to include the theory of evolution in the science curriculum at both primary and secondary levels.

This motion has been signed by a total of 105 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.