With the increasing number of immigrants becoming citizens of the United Kingdom, our education system has introduced classes to help them develop their understanding and knowledge of what it “means” to be British. These lessons were made compulsory 7 years ago, and in that time the results from the students in the classes have improved. However, there are still “gaps” in their knowledge.

Ofsted inspectors have said that in some secondary schools, there are “important gaps” in students knowledge. Their report was based up on 91 schools across the UK, and it says that just over half of the schools were, at least, “good” on the subject, but only one was rated “outstanding” and 10 were “inadequate”.

For such an important subject for the development of our citizens, one would assume that progress will be swift in coming.