“Jamie Oliver's cookery GCSE (well, half of one)” |
| Jamie Oliver's cookery GCSE (well, half of one) Posted: 18 Feb 2011 04:24 PM PST By Kate Loveys  Dream come true: Jamie Oliver will see cooking put back on school's menus after exam board Edexcel offered a course to up to a million pupils You don't need a GCSE in logic to work it out. Only one person could be behind a school course in cooking featuring modules entitled Pasta La Vista Baby, Stewpendous and Veg Out. Jamie Oliver, who lobbied ministers for six years to put cooking back on the curriculum, will see his wish come true in September when the subject becomes compulsory in English secondary schools. The TV chef has teamed up with exam board Edexcel to create a course which will be available to more than a million pupils. Pupils following Oliver's Home Cooking Skills BTEC – a vocational qualification which will earn the equivalent of half a GCSE – will learn to cook staple dishes such as chilli con carne and roast chicken as well as how to write a shopping list, read food labels and cook economically. The colourful curriculum with its smattering of catchphrases reads like an Oliver recipe book. The father of four launched the course last September and some 5,000 children in 200 schools are already taking it, a number expected to soar when it becomes mandatory to teach cooking for a minimum of one hour a week to 11 to 14-year-olds for at least a term. Yesterday Oliver said teaching youngsters to cook would combat obesity and save lives. 'Home cooking from fresh is one of the greatest pieces of knowledge anyone can have,' he added. He is also behind a project for Channel 4 beginning next month called Jamie's Dream School, in which he invites celebrities and academics to try to engage 20 school dropouts in learning subjects such as history, English and drama.  Cookery course: All pupils aged 11-14 will be taught for at least one hour a week for a full term when the subject becomes mandatory later this year This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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