Following the establishment in 1997 of the Advisory Group on Education for Citizenship and Teaching of Democracy in Schools, citizenship became a component of the National Curriculum at Key Stages three and four. And in 2000, a separate advisory group recommended that citizenship should become an entitlement for all young people aged 16-19 and development projects began in September 2001.
With the Department for Education and Skills poised to decide whether or not to extend the post-16 entitlement to citizenship education, the second-year findings of 21 projects are likely to have a major impact on its decision. For the most part, the report from the National Foundation for Educational Research highlights the positive effects of citizenship education for the over-16s.
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