Home
Gallery
Search
Register
Log in
About Us & RulesTurkey will stop teaching evolution in schools, education ministry says
Page 1 of 1
Turkey will stop teaching evolution in schools, education ministry says
by Guest Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:07 am
Turkish schoolchildren will no longer be taught about evolution, a government official has said, in another sign of the conservative direction the country is heading in under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Alpaslan Durmus, the head of curriculum for the ministry of education, said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was “controversial” and would be removed from school programmes by 2019.
“We have excluded controversial subjects for students at an age unable yet to understand the issues’ scientific background,” Mr Durmus said. “As the students at ninth grade are not endowed with antecedents to discuss the ‘Origin of Life and Evolution’ section in biology classes, this section will be delayed until undergraduate study.”
Continue reading by clicking the name of the source below.
SOURCE THE TELEGRAPH
“We have excluded controversial subjects for students at an age unable yet to understand the issues’ scientific background,” Mr Durmus said. “As the students at ninth grade are not endowed with antecedents to discuss the ‘Origin of Life and Evolution’ section in biology classes, this section will be delayed until undergraduate study.”
Continue reading by clicking the name of the source below.
SOURCE THE TELEGRAPH
Guest- Guest
Similar topics» Schools teaching 'pro-Palestinian extremist agenda’
» Secular schools closing down Turkey
» How LGBTQIA+ teaching in schools erases lesbian & gay kids
» Christian fundamentalist schools teaching girls they must obey men
» The removal of Darwin and evolution from schools is a backwards step
» Secular schools closing down Turkey
» How LGBTQIA+ teaching in schools erases lesbian & gay kids
» Christian fundamentalist schools teaching girls they must obey men
» The removal of Darwin and evolution from schools is a backwards step
Page 1 of 1
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
» TOTAL MADNESS Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme ‘for encouraging far-right sympathies
» Interesting COVID figures
» HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
» The Fight Over Climate Change is Over (The Greenies Won!)
» Trump supporter murders wife, kills family dog, shoots daughter
» Quill
» Algerian Woman under investigation for torture and murder of French girl, 12, whose body was found in plastic case in Paris
» Wind turbines cool down the Earth (edited with better video link)
» Saying goodbye to our Queen.
» PHEW.
» And here's some more enrichment...
» John F Kennedy Assassination
» Where is everyone lately...?
» London violence over the weekend...
» Why should anyone believe anything that Mo Farah says...!?
» Liverpool Labour defends mayor role poll after turnout was only 3% and they say they will push ahead with the option that was least preferred!!!
» Labour leader Keir Stammer can't answer the simple question of whether a woman has a penis or not...
» More evidence of remoaners still trying to overturn Brexit... and this is a conservative MP who should be drummed out of the party and out of parliament!
» R Kelly 30 years, Ghislaine Maxwell 20 years... but here in UK...