Ms Niamh Crowley:

Yes. In fact, in Britain at the moment they are discussing the possibility of making history and geography compulsory again for students up to age 16. However, one of the problems they have identified with that is that there are not enough teachers in the system anymore. The number of teachers in the system fell when these subjects were removed from the core curriculum in the United Kingdom. They now have an infrastructural difficulty in trying to reintroduce history and geography as core subjects.