Students undertook a rigid curriculum based around the liberal arts and anyone who could pass was very well-educated.

The performance and quality of higher education is currently severely compromised by overly centralized order to improve the already outdated system, rigid curriculum and teaching practices.

Too much reliance on testing means that teachers are subjected to teaching a rigid curriculum.

I really like the idea of the removal of a fixed, rigid curriculum and of more personal freedom for young people.

He is a tough marker, disdains grade-grubbers and insists on a rigid curriculum.

Dr. Castro has increased the number of periods dedicated to reading instruction and put some schools on a rigid present curriculum.

She herself was not enrolled but recalls its open format that encouraged creative minds to explore without a rigid curriculum.

There are no textbooks at this entry level of education, no rigid curriculum.

The Frisbee image is one well abandoned, but the more rigid curriculum is a change to be approached with caution.

School officials say the rigid curriculum is a blessing for novice teachers like Ms. Moffett, who had only a month of training.