noun · formal
curriculum
UK/kəˈrɪkjʊləm/US/kəˈrɪkjələm/cur·RIC·u·lum
the official set of courses and their content taught in a school or university.
Examples
“Many schools are updating their curriculum to include digital skills.”
“A broader curriculum can help students develop critical thinking.”
“Curriculum reforms often take years to implement nationwide.”
Band 8 sentence
“When debating education policy, we must distinguish between curriculum content and teaching methods, since changing the former without training teachers achieves little.”
Collocations
- national curriculum
- core curriculum
- curriculum reform
Word family
Common mistakes
I read the syllabus for the whole school.→I read the curriculum for the whole school.
many curriculum→many curricula
The curriculum are outdated.→The curriculum is outdated.
Say it for a higher band
5syllabus→6programme→7+curriculum
Synonyms
syllabus
programme
Easily confused
syllabus
“The syllabus for my history class lists weekly readings.”
programme
“She enrolled in a psychology programme at the university.”
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