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More teachers and more training needed for Holocaust education, say MPs

January 23, 2016 10:32
HET chief executive Karen Pollock who gave evidence to the committee

ByCharlotte Oliver, Charlotte Oliver

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More teachers need to be trained to teach the Holocaust, according to a report published today by the Education Select Committee.

It said that more attention should be paid to spreading Holocaust education to include other subjects in schools besides history, such as English, drama and PSHE.

The committee, a Department for Education-backed team of MPs who launched an inquiry in September into the effectiveness of Holocaust education, has spent the past four month speaking to leading experts – including Holocaust Educational Trust chief executive Karen Pollock – and receiving written submissions.

According to its findings, most teachers have either not received any professional training in specific Holocaust education or have participated in programmes of training companies whose work was not “quality assured”.