However, while the latest review may have something to tell us about the curriculum and about professional autonomy overall, two areas have caught the public eye where I fear he is wrong.
By now the pain and stress of developing the curriculum has just about faded.
Although they may include wonderful opportunities to do research, most of the curriculum is about training you to be a clinician, not about preparing you for a research career.
And when the curriculum talks about the rise and fall of empires it still only means the Roman empire.
The curriculum requires about 80 to 120 hours of work, which can take from three months to more than a year to complete.
"Too much of the curriculum is about how things should be taught or learned, or what types of things to learn, rather than the end product; in other words, what pupils should know," he reckons.
The weekly classes are part of the curriculum for about 37,000 pupils aged 15-17; parents arentitleded to withdraw their sons from the course, but such a move is rare.
The curriculum added about $200, for a three-year license, to the total price of $768 for each device.
Education is not about the curriculum; it's about the student, and a system that places so much emphasis on curriculum and so little on the student — and considers the student as an object (as here, a literal, grammatical object) is doomed to failure for the vast majority.
