The word "syllabuses" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to more than one syllabus. For example, "The teacher created three different syllabuses for her classes."
In America a broad range of teaching styles and syllabuses have survived government efforts to unify them.
That thinking influenced the syllabuses now followed by most British schoolchildren.The model has fans elsewhere.
Since then, plans have been laid to merge the six A-level boards into three and to cut the number of syllabuses offered by each.But although all the excited talk about a great fall in standards seems ill-founded, evidence does exist that as pupils have become increasingly aware of which subjects are the hardest to pass they have deserted them.
More important, teachers around the world have been putting academic coursework online for more than a decade, including reading material, syllabuses, video lectures and practice exams.
The 2008 debacle might have come as less of a surprise if all those MBAs had been taught that there have been at least 124 bank-centred crises around the world since 1970, most of which were preceded by booms in house prices and stockmarkets, large capital inflows and rising public debt.History courses aside, business schools need to change their tone more than their syllabuses.
And pure academic content, since much of it is defined by official syllabuses, is effectively a commodity.
The current regulator is to be broken in two, with one bit continuing to develop new syllabuses and qualifications and reporting to ministers.
"We asked ourselves a simple question what are we teaching now that we did not teach a decade ago?" says Stephen Burnett, the school's associate dean of executive education.Kellogg asked its faculty to review old course notes and syllabuses, and to identify developments in MBA coursework since the mid-1990s.
In these places the teaching is mostly dreadful, syllabuses are outdated and facilities can be a health hazard.Many private establishments (which must be affiliated to a public university and cannot be run for profit) suffer the same deficiencies.
Schools respond by shopping around among exam boards for the easiest syllabuses and tests, and directing pupils towards the softest subjects.
For GCSE history, OCR, the second most popular board in England, offers three syllabuses, "the modern world", "schools history project" and "modern British social and economic history".
