Exam board guilty of cultural vandalism, says Nadhim Zahawi

The Guardian

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Nadhim Zahawi: axing Larkin and Owen poems for GCSE is cultural vandalism

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.

The Independent

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Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin’s GCSE removal is ‘cultural vandalism’ – Zahawi

Nadhim Zahawi hit out on Thursday at the move by OCR, which is part of a wider reform of the exam board’s anthology.

The Telegraph

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Nadhim Zahawi battles exam board ‘vandals’ who ditched Larkin poems in name of diversity

The removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE examination has been branded as “cultural vandalism” by Nadhim Zahawi.

The Times

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Exam board guilty of cultural vandalism, says Nadhim Zahawi

Removing Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from GCSE English literature is “cultural vandalism”, Nadhim Zahawi has said.OCR, one of the three main exam boards, is

Express & Star

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Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin’s GCSE removal is ‘cultural vandalism’ – Zahawi

Nadhim Zahawi hit out on Thursday at the move by OCR, which is part of a wider reform of the exam board’s anthology.

The Sun

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Exam board guilty of cultural vandalism, says Nadhim Zahawi