ABSTRACT
The Interim Primary Committee was dominated by local authority representatives, senior advisers and teachers, with two academics. The Interim Committee was merely advisory and the National Curriculum Council was at liberty either to accept or reject its advice. During the previous decade, studies of the transfer process between primary and secondary schools had attempted to improve curriculum continuity, and thereby reduce the levels of frustration experienced by secondary teachers when coping with the diversity of practice emanating from their primary feeder schools. The Framework reaffirmed that school management was fundamentally about managing the curriculum, but remained ambivalent on how this planning exercise should be carried out. The most significant finding to emerge from these three surveys was that teachers' workloads showed very little sign of diminishing over the three years in which they were monitored.
