Submitted on Tuesday 17th November 2020
Rejected on Monday 23rd November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make Media Studies a compulsory subject in UK schools.
In the last few years alone "fake news" has influenced elections, led to violence, and has caused mental distress to countless people. With Coronavirus, this has become literally life or death. Being able to critically evaluate the information we consume is integral in the age of social media.
The Government is already aware of this problem and has introduced a rapid response unit to tackle it (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52086284).
But, the fact is that "fake news" is so widespread that unless people have the skills to be able to deal with it themselves, there is no telling what damage it may continue to do.
Research has been carried out to back this up, as well (https://edtechnology.co.uk/latest-news/media-studies-should-be-mandatory-says-bournemouth-university/).
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331331
The title of your petition called for media studies to be made a compulsory subject, but the main text of your petition focused on fake news, which is covered by the above petition.
If you specifically want media studies to be made a core subject in the national curriculum we could accept a petition requesting this, but it would need to be clear from your petition text that this is what you want to happen. We could only accept a petition requesting this for England, as education is a devolved responsibility in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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