Children study the national curriculum in the morning and receive a Koranic education in the afternoon.
But the teachers would have none of the head's idea, arguing that all children have the right to study a broad curriculum.
The study confirms that the new curriculum for excellence is unusual in that individual schools have immense freedom, deciding on what subjects they teach, course content and design.
Japan has integrated ESD into national curriculum guidelines (the Courses of Study) and the Basic Plan for the Promotion of Education.
It had been heavily criticised by teaching unions and some groups, especially those involved in the arts, who said it would narrow the curriculum and that fewer young people would study art and music and other non-Bacc subjects as a result of it.
At the Centres, youths can study e-learning modules including the Microsoft Digital Literary Curriculum , as well as take accredited courses in both business and entrepreneurial and technical skills.
State schools will still have to teach national curriculum subjects, but not the detailed programmes of study, except for the last two years of primary school.
In teaching mainstream national curriculum subjects, the academy emphasises the need to study more broadly, while enabling the children to get further ahead of their contemporaries.
Never for one minute did I think that Michael Gove (the British Education Secretary) would make his historic speech in January saying that the current programme of study for ICT would be disapplied this September and replaced with a curriculum with computer science at its core.
If the parent who complained about A Study in Scarlet had asked that it be taught as part of an interdisciplinary curriculum that points out where Conan Doyle exaggerated for dramatic effect while acknowledging the realities of early Mormon history, I might have been sympathetic.
We will also reform the curriculum so that students get a better and broader range of options for study beyond the age of 14, developing their talents and challenging them to achieve more.
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Under an overhaul of the national curriculum in England, 14- to 16-year-olds will study two Shakespeare plays, rather than the one currently required, while seven- to 11-year-olds will learn about the playwright in history lessons.
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.
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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In America, a similar study suggested chess improved children's reading and writing skills, and led to chess being placed on the curriculum in New Jersey.
The government responded by asking the author of this study, Professor Robin Alexander of Warwick University, along with Chris Woodhead (then in charge of the national curriculum, now England's chief inspector of schools) and Jim Rose (a senior schools inspector) to conduct an urgent review of the evidence on teaching methods.
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