This aims to achieve a transformation in education in Scotland by providing a coherent, more flexible and enriched curriculum from 3 to 18.

The issues that these new qualifications address are the really big ones: bridging the academic-vocational divide, the need for a coherent curriculum, building in core skills, and, finally, rewarding merit.

Agreed areas for improvement were: "Continue to develop a coherent curriculum which provides appropriate progression for all young people.

The Graduate School is the first of its kind in Germany and is among very few in the world to integrate these disciplines into a coherent curriculum.

What they need is a coherent, sequential curriculum.

Pupils will be encouraged to follow, and will be provided with, a broad, balanced, coherent and relevant curriculum.

Mr. Bloom rightly points to serious flaws in undergraduate education, such as the lack of effective academic counseling and lack of a coherent curriculum.

Other civilized countries have opted against such pockets of ignorance by enforcing a coherent national curriculum.

But faculty members believe their efforts to design a coherent curriculum are hindered by the discipline's status.

"If you're not a department there is no way to design a coherent curriculum, to guarantee that crucial courses are offered at regular intervals, to create a consistently high-quality intellectual experience for students," she says.