Curriculum 2000

Few people will be unaware that major changes have taken place in the A level system. Although the content of the mathematics A level itself has changed little as the following articles report there are a number of changes of which staff at universities should be aware.The following four articles report on these changes three follow from talks given at a recent briefing day which took place on Monday 11 June 2001 at the Institute of Education University of London. The purpose of this was to explain the changes to the A level system under Curriculum 2000. The fourth gives details of the situation in Scotland following the “Higher still” review.