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British schoolchildren are set to have “problematic” words like “immigration” and “homosexuality” removed from papers, while history teachers should avoid the term “medieval”, under new plans from woke exam bosses. Exam boards across the country have hollowed out so-called “outdated terminology” and are “decolonising” syllabuses in a new inclusivity drive – with one, Edexcel, labelling a series of words, including “immigration”, “slave”, “native Indian” and “gypsy”, as “problematic”. Edexcel’s latest GCSE history syllabus, which covers topics like Elizabethan England, the USA and Nazi Germany,…

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