New approaches - based on tests assessing whether children meet a particular national curriculum level - were being piloted, he added.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families is piloting a possible replacement in the form of "single level tests" that children would take to confirm their teachers' assessment that they had reached a higher national curriculum attainment level.
Mark Warner, professor of theoretical physics, who will lead the project, said the university would work in close collaboration with teachers and schools, "within the framework of the existing A-level curriculum".
We want to include 52 skills in one grade level curriculum, in a shorter school day, with local control over standards, with randomly qualified instructors, with varying materials and instructional approaches AND still use a standardized measure of competence.
However, at classroom level this intended curriculum may be altered through a range of complex classroom interactions, and what is actually delivered can be considered the "implemented" curriculum.
So we just took it to the next level and developed our entire curriculum and started our own program.
Mr Russell outlined a wish to build on the curriculum for excellence, the importance of higher level apprenticeships and the need to develop a stronger legislative base for access.
Increased focus is likely to be needed in the curriculum as well: even at the undergraduate level, the institution is probably offering more majors and courses than it can afford.
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The mathematical sciences were neglected almost to the point of extinction within the mediaeval educational system, the schools teaching almost no mathematics and the universities only paying lip service to a narrow curriculum of mathematical topics at the very lowest level.
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The QCA's subject officer for history, Jerome Freeman, said that in the curriculum for 11 to 14 year olds and at GCSE and A-level there were options for looking at the politics of the recent past.
Some critics of the choice and accountability movement have suggested national voluntary curriculum and standards so that kids in Arizona and kids in Connecticut are learning at the same level, or at least have the same basic set of guidelines.
The report calls the issue both "serious and urgent" and urges the government to use the ongoing curriculum reform to produce an "extended" version for students with the potential to study the subject at A-level.
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