ABSTRACT
Teaching and learning-particularly the latter-are the central functions of any educational institution-the reason or rationale for its existence. The curriculum is the programme of learning opportunities provided by a school or college including the formal lessons in classroom, laboratory, gymnasium or on the sports field and also those activities that take place outside the normal school hours, such as dramatic and musical productions, matches against teams from other schools and school trips and visits. There is also what is termed the ‘hidden curriculum’—the set of attitudes and values that the pupils or students acquire, often subconsciously, through being members of the institution. This hidden curriculum is linked closely to the ethos of the school and the relationships between pupils or students and between students and staff-and the governors. It can have a significant impact upon pupils’ social and moral development.
