The United Nationalist Democrat leader, now the State Minister for Education, Science and Healthcare, has suggested that a new major shake-up of secondary education could help lead to more pupils staying on in education after the default school leaving age of 15. Tymur Rubin, who joined Koruin Gruaman’s Centrist government with two other UND members, said he hoped to ‘raise standards and aspirations’ by ‘broadening’ the choices of subjects that pupils have at the age of thirteen. Mr Rubin said it would be a priority of the government to investigate raising the school leaving age to 17, increasing it by two years. Any reform, he suggested, would likely take place after 2013, stressing that the government is merely ‘exploring its options’. Choices could include new, more non-academic, subjects, such as environmental studies.
Rubin Hints At New Education Reform
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