Ms Smith added that teachers could work with the slimmed down curriculum as they were "intelligent and creative".

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First, the colleges water down the curriculum and their academic demands, something manifested most obviously in grade inflation.

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Ministers say the curriculum will be slimmed down, but there will be "detailed programmes of study" for English, maths and science that will set out the "core knowledge" expected.

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He told the chamber 54, 000 young people were in the S2 cohort vanguard for the Curriculum for Excellence and to "let them down and desert their aspirations would be the wrong thing to do".

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The company is also helping some technical universities develop a curriculum based in part on open technologies that could benefit IBM down the road.

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As various Harvard and Yale professors will tell you, the curriculum is nothing compared with what it used to be before the dumbing down of American society.

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