1 Apr 2025

Shakespeare could be compulsory in new curriculum

From Morning Report, 8:15 am on 1 April 2025

The draft English curriculum for students in years seven to thirteen says those studying the subject in the final two years of schooling must study a text by Shakespeare. Education correspondent John Gerritsen has been looking at the draft.

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