ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the institutional organization of the curriculum. Teachers at the start of their careers may feel that this wider, institutional organization is not their province. For the governors of our schools, an understanding of organization is perhaps even more important. Organization is a systematic arrangement of parts which shows the relationships between the parts. 'Model' is a term much used and misused in curriculum studies. Essentially it means a representation of something; it is not the real thing, it is an abstraction. A timetable is certainly a model of a curriculum organization. The idea of a 'modular curriculum' is much in vogue, and has been given further impetus in secondary schools by the extension of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative. In the conventional organizational structure of schools, subjects are thinly spread over several years, each being allocated a few periods of 30 or 40 minutes per week.
