The next government should commission an independent expert review on climate education which is currently “undervalued and underrepresented”, an exam board has said.
Cambridge University Press and Assessment said the expert-led review should collect evidence on the climate knowledge youngsters need, then work out how to embed that into the education system.
They claim climate education is “undervalued and underrepresented in the curriculum”.
A Teacher Tapp survey commissioned by the organisation found about 35 per cent of 6,100 secondary teachers did not believe they spent enough time teaching the issue.
