Education: Citizenship Studies Debate

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Education: Citizenship Studies

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Disabled Students’ Allowance
Monday 30th June 2014

(10 years, 4 months ago)

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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I do not agree with the noble Baroness on that.

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My Lords, do citizenship classes include the proper teaching and understanding of not only how Westminster works but how local government, the United Nations and the EU work? In my time at school that was a part of it.

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They are supposed to include democracy, the electoral system, government, human rights and international law.

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