Elementary education Over the last two years, I have followed the efforts being made to fill the 60,000 engineering vacancies in the UK. I am now 80 years old and, having spent 15 years in industry, completed a BEd and had a career teaching physics and chemistry. I am a member of the University of the Third Age. Last term I enjoyed the Science for Grandchildren course. Two issues concern me. First, the word 'elements' does not appear in the key stage one and two science curriculum. The basic building blocks of the universe do not appear. Second, budgeting is not an included requirement in the primary maths curriculum. This is a necessity if personal debt is to be reduced, together with poverty and its connected mental health problems.
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