ABSTRACT
The cuts in teaching staff resulting from the amalgamation, and subsequent economic cut-backs, have had inevitable repercussions on the school curriculum, and one of the principal effects has been a return to a more traditional teaching pattern. Since 1977, most teaching about modern Europe in the school curriculum has taken place within separate subjects—history, geography, modern languages, economics, politics and sociology with general studies providing a context for any additional modern European material in the upper school. As with economics and politics, there is no prescribed European content in the advanced level sociology syllabus although there are European possibilities in the section on a modern industrial society. General Studies, in this school, provides an opportunity for members of staff to teach the things they like or topics they feel have not been adequately covered in their special subjects.
