![]() We can rehearse the arguments about the "competencies" history provides – the ability to prioritise information marshal an argument critique sources. ![]() This elimination of the past is nothing short of a national tragedy. And academy schools, so admired by government ministers, are among the worst offenders. Our national story is being privatised, with 48% of independent pupils taking the subject compared with 30% of state school entrants. But more worryingly, the figures showed not just a fall in numbers taking GCSE history, but that the study of the past is becoming the preserve of the private sector. ![]() Sadly, last week's exam results revealed far too few students are receiving the history teaching I enjoyed. And it was wonderful: a beguiling mixture of gore and grime along with a sense of the visceral, foreign, unknowable past which we all wanted to get our hands on. We met typhus-ridden Irish immigrants and philistine factory owners.
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