The draft version of the A-level biology common-core syllabus is currently being debated. The syllabus is included as part of a discussion highlighting its development. (JN)

A 1980 mail survey of the 72 American colleges of pharmacy concerning the status of required chemistry courses in the professional curriculum was conducted. Results of the survey are discussed and the survey was used to establish the baseline for the status of chemistry courses in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum. (Author/MLW)

There has been considerable interest in identifying content and structure for secondary core curriculum based on common values in Australia and other countries. The beginnings of a core curriculum not tied to traditional subjects exist in Australia, but a major obstacle is in providing local school support. (MSE)

Summarizes results of a survey of perceptions of 120 1968-69 college students. Students are influenced more by what goes on outside the classroom than inside and by how faculty members relate to them instead of by what faculty members know about the subject. Students can be critical of their own behavior. (Author)

The task of general education should be to provide a broad framework for understanding, an intellectual context within which factual information can meaningfully be comprehended. Each framework should have at least three qualities in common: an historical dimension, an intellectual dimension, and an analytical dimension. (MLW)

Advocates a skills-based curriculum as an inexpensive way of preparing children for the future. Briefly discusses the eight independent learning skills to be taught: reading, writing, research, planning, problem solving, self discipline, self evaluation, and presentation. This model was developed at the Zoo School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (SJL)

Presents data collected concerning concepts and skills which should be emphasized in the general academic curriculum and in the industrial technology curriculum, recommended minor fields of study for industrial technology majors, characteristics of successful employees, and present and future professional industrial employment needs in the…

Described is science content within an interdisciplinary core curriculum at the New School of Liberal Arts, Brooklyn College. The first two years of undergraduate work consist of art, literature, history, and science within a choice of five time periods. Also offered is a science and humanities course. (DS)

To provide related training for apprentices in trades with low enrollment, the developers of the Lane Community College program identified core requirements common to the trades and gave instruction in those areas to mixed groups of apprentices. (SK)

Highlights and criticizes changes in the traditional core curriculum during the 1960s and 1970s. Points to weaknesses in the current "return to basics" trend infiltrating core curricula. Calls for a clearer definition of undergraduate curriculum goals and the adoption of guidelines in order to eliminate the formlessness of the current system. (CAM)

This scheme for a core curriculum rejects central control over the precise body of knowledge taught or the teaching methods used but advocates some control over experiments in education and the early assessment of their results. (Author/SJL)

The learning laboratory of the Training School for Boys, a New Jersey correctional school for eight- to fourteen-year-olds, provides remedial reading instruction through a diagnostic-prescriptive model with the assistance of trained volunteers and interns. (SK)

Describes philosophy of education components of Canadian teacher education programs in terms of: what constitutes philosophy of education; how it relates to educational theory; how relevant it is to other elements of teacher education; how much time is allotted to it; and how often it is a required subject. (SB)

Describes the Wharton Communication Program, which integrates writing instruction within that graduate school's core courses by emphasizing voluntary improvement of communication skills. (RL)

Discusses the future of the humanities in American institutions of higher learning, including the role of elementary and secondary schools in raising academic standards. (AM)