The secondary headteachers union suggests the curriculum is in theory a good idea but in many ways impractical.

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The idea is for the curriculum to be offered in schools, as electives.

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She said volunteering should be introduced as part of national curriculum projects in schools and she backed a US idea that ties the funding of public bodies with the number of volunteers recruited.

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The other heavily-trafficked area of contemporary business school is ethics, or the idea of ethics as an independent component of curriculum.

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The idea was to tie teachers to teaching the national curriculum and to give parents an indication of the relative success of schools.

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He wisely ensured that ownership of the idea was widely spread by delegating design of the new curriculum to several faculty committees.

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He withdrew a move for the event to be included on the local history curriculum after the education minister agreed to set up a meeting to discuss the idea further.

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But the teachers would have none of the head's idea, arguing that all children have the right to study a broad curriculum.

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There are a lot of people who think that some kind of international baccalaureate would be a good idea and we will be publishing proposals on the whole 14-19 curriculum again in the new year.

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Moving also requires shifting institutional thought, especially the idea in education that physical exercise is in competition with academics for a slot in the curriculum instead of an essential ingredient of academic performance that begins with increasing general physical activity.

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