Additional dividends of curriculum change

What Drives Curriculum Change?

While promotional literature about computer science programs may claim that curricula are determined by the needs of the students and by international best practice, the reality is often different. In this paper we reflect on the factors underlying curriculum change in computer science departments and schools, from institutional requirements and financial pressures to purely academic considerat...

Curriculum Change Needed at Yale

The United States Congress has recently passed an important bill entitled, The Health Professionals Assistance Act of 1976. It seeks to right physician maldistribution in the country and curtail the over specialization of medical practitioners. Quotas have been set in terms of the number of medical school graduates who must enter primary care training programs over the next few years. Failure t...

Constructing the Curriculum: National Curriculum, Teachers' practice & Change

Design and implementation of curriculum change.

In this paper, the authors propose adapting a four-stage model to design, implement and evaluate change in the curriculum for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. For each stage, a relevant case study is presented to illustrate the application of the model. Factors facilitating change are described, as well as barriers to change. Strategies to overcome such barriers and the applicabilit...

Medical Education Strategies for implementing curriculum change

BMJ 1992;305:1482-5 The General Medical Council has announced that British medical education must change,' but what strategies can be used to implement the desired reforms? Most people accept that the way in which a subject is taught can have as much impact on what students learn as the content of the course. A recent review by the Oxford Centre for Staff Development identified five aspects of ...