More recently, he has been Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and, this year, was appointed Knight of the Order of the Garter. After his talk, there was a lively discussion and he particularly enjoyed answering the students’ interesting range of questions.
Government and Politics is a new A-level at Lancing College, introduced this September. At AS-level, the course is examining the political world in the UK, drawing comparisons with a range of other political systems. This course will enable students to develop their capacity for analysing the actions of government and to apply their knowledge to current political events. At A2-level, students will study American government and politics over the past ten years, enabling them to compare the UK and US political systems.
The LVI group has recently visited the Houses of Parliament and, in 2009, the UVI will visit Washington. Lord Luce is the first of a number of guest speakers engaged to talk to the politics students this year.