As for the curriculum, such as it is -- the school has no written syllabus, just an oral tradition -- Mr. Martins has added classes in ballroom dance, mime, contemporary partnering techniques and weight training for the men.
Tony Blair's academies state-funded schools with some academies state-fundedtterschoolsas syllabus and teachers' pay—have been told to pay more heed to the national curriculum and the demands of local councils.
Also included in the syllabus are Q codes such as QRA, QRG, QRH, QRI, QRK, QRL, QRM, QRN, QRQ, QRS, QRT, QRU, QRV, QRW, QRX, QRZ, QSA, QSB, QSL, QSO, QSU, QSV, QSW, QSX, QSY, QSZ, QTC, QTH, QTR, and QUM; and CW abbreviations and prosigns such as AA, AB, AR, AS, C, CFM, CL, CQ, DE, K, NIL, OK, R, TU, VA, WA, and WB.
Now that in Romania there is a strong emphasis on the interaction between Knowledge, values, attitudes and behaviours, the curricular components such as curriculum plans, syllabuses, textbooks, guidebooks have by means of the teaching staff, a decisive role in the success of the educational reform.
With the current public communication platform provided by the school, teachers and students can visit the school website freely, searching for, uploading and downloading information related to their work and study such as teaching syllabus, class information, curriculum arrangements, specific timetables, ect.
The participants complained about many issues such as curriculum overload, unclear syllabus with frequent changes in it without prior notification and the short duration of the course.
OCR and the English Media Centre say of their new syllabus: "It ranges from classics such as the poems of Emily Dickinson and William Blake to memoirs like Twelve Years A Slave and contemporary works including the poetry of Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jez Butterworth's stage play Jerusalem, fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri and Russell Brand's evidence on drugs policy presented to the House of Commons".
The programme has now been adapted for international education systems, such as A-level syllabuses in England and Northern Ireland, and systems in China and Norway.
Littlefield (1999) argues that a syllabus has three overarching functions: motivational, such as setting the tone for the course and motivating students; structural, which serves the purpose of offering timelines for the papers and the exams, readings and assignments to be done; and evidentiary, claiming the contractual nature of syllabus between students and the faculty.
