This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Include British colonial history as a mandatory part of the national curriculum
As the Black Lives Matter movement has gained significant traction the past weeks it has become clear there is a huge gap in Britain's understanding of its own colonial history. A major part of overcoming systematic racism is educating people, especially about our role in perpetuating those systems
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The government sets the national curriculum, therefore it is within their purview to ensure all students are adequately educated about our colonial history
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Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
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