Businesses, scientists and teachers would be involved in writing a new national curriculum and redesigning exams under a Labour plan to take the party politics out of education.
A report from the Labour Skills Council, set up by Sir Keir Starmer and headed by the former education secretary Lord Blunkett, will today call for a National Curriculum Authority to be established that “draws in broad expertise for reshaping the curriculum, rethinking assessment and providing a modernised syllabus which is free from party political interference”.
