Schools minister rebuffs calls to decolonise English curriculum

Nick Gibb says no reason why children from ethnic minorities should not study work of a ‘dead white man’The Schools minister, Nick Gibb, has pushed back against calls to decolonise the curriculum in England and has warned that what pupils learn in the classroom should not be tailored to any one particular group.Amid mounting pressure to make the teaching of black history mandatory in schools and to diversify the national curriculum, the minister said there was no reason why children