Reform UK unveils plans for Union flags and ‘patriotic’ historical past classes in faculties | EUROtoday

Reform UK has unveiled a sequence of training insurance policies, together with obligatory shows of the King’s portrait and the Union flag in each faculty, alongside the introduction of “patriotic” historical past classes.

The social gathering, which introduced the proposals forward of St George’s Day, acknowledged these measures goal to revive “national pride” throughout the curriculum.

They criticised the present strategy to historical past, describing it as being taught by way of “a progressive lens.”

Should they kind a authorities, Reform UK pledged to implement a brand new curriculum inside their first 100 days. They argued that the topic ought to mirror a “patriotic history of the British Isles” and keep away from being framed by “modern narratives.”

Reform needs pupils in England to cowl occasions such because the Magna Carta, the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Act of Union, the Enlightenment and Victorian Britain.

These are all matters which fall inside time intervals coated already in GCSE historical past by examination boards throughout England.

British historical past would kind a minimal of 60 per cent of the topic’s assessed content material, with the Secretary of State for Education being given powers to intervene “where this is not followed”, the social gathering stated.

Reform UK’s would-be training secretary, Suella Braverman, stated: “Tory and Labour governments have failed a generation of young people with a substandard curriculum that undermines academic rigour and national identity in favour of promoting their mass migration agenda.

“Reform will end this. As education secretary I will introduce a new curriculum that will rekindle national pride and ensure that every child leaves school with an understanding of what a privilege it is to be British.”

The social gathering has additionally indicated that each faculty will probably be required to fly the Union flag, honour St George’s Day in England and mount a visual portrait of King Charles in a communal house.

They additionally indicated that funding could be offered for Scottish and Welsh faculties to fly the Union flag together with their nationwide flags however acknowledged that training is a devolved space of presidency.

They claimed that in 2024, each state-funded faculty within the nation was provided a portrait of the King however solely 34 per cent took up the provide.