Curriculum 2001 Report-Back

Philip Machanick
School of Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits, South Africa
philip@cs.wits.ac.za


Curriculum 2001 is a response to complaints that Curriculum '91 was
too difficult for under-resourced academic institutions, as well as
the need to update the content for changes in technology. Curriculum
'91 defined knowledge units (KUs) and encouraged academics to define
their own curricula by combining KUs in a flexible way. Curriculum
2001 therefore set out with fairly modest goals. Even so, some aspects
have been controversial. This paper explains the reason for some of
the controversy, and attempts to allay some of the concerns.