Nadhim Zahawi: axing Larkin and Owen poems for GCSE is cultural vandalism
by Richard Adams Education editor from World news | The Guardian on (#60P1V)
Education secretary denounces exam board's decision to replace two poets in English literature course
Shelley said poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", but politicians may be more powerful after the education secretary attacked the removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE course as cultural vandalism" and called for their reinstatement.
Nadhim Zahawi denounced a decision by the OCR examination board to replace two works by Larkin and Owen from next year with a more diverse range of authors to be studied as part of its GCSE English literature course.
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