ABSTRACT
A school's 'product' has been defined as the curriculum which educates its students. This chapter discusses the curriculum and how governors can participate in its management. Curriculum management could be defined as an inexact science resting on the art of making choices from amongst competing, but equally important, aims. The topics taught are the National Curriculum and additions selected by the school. Product management can be defined as the organisation of the operations and people needed to produce the curriculum. The curriculum will be flexibly adjusted as government, employers and others request developments. The terminology of product management may seem distant from schools. The ethos, or hidden curriculum of governor school, is as important a product as is its subject teaching. Awareness of the hidden curriculum begins, first, with the prospectus which will contain the school's aims and rules.
