More than 82,000 people have now signed a petition calling on Morgan to reverse Gove's changes to the GCSE English literature syllabus.
On Monday a post appeared on Facebook calling for students across Greece to occupy their high schools, in response to a "new school" bill, which includes drastic changes to the exams process, the syllabus and which may lead to teacher and textbook shortages.
Officially mandated curricula act as guidelines, explained David Rogers, curriculum leader for geography at Priory School in Portsmouth, in a teacher forum debating the change to the geography syllabus: No curriculum will ever be fully comprehensive, creative or innovative.
Engineering Mathematics is a key area of all engineering degree courses and the changes to the pre-university mathematics syllabus mean that many departments and institutions are developing strategies to support their students with their mathematics.
"Why were schoolchildren not consulted in the change of the syllabus?" asked one young panelist.
* * * Around eight years ago, when I was teaching a writing course at the University of Washington, I made a change to my syllabus: students would be required to read each week's New Yorker, cover to cover.
Some progress has already been made, in relation to the syllabus and teaching methods.
In spite of pressure from the League and various government ministries, most university professors did not make changes to their lectures or syllabus during the Nazi period.
