Ministers are committed to a slimmer more flexible curriculum to be focused on the basics and organised around traditional subject disciplines.

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The Post Office's management, for its part, believes that the Treasury might be prepared to bend its borrowing rules if it was persuaded that the business was going to be subject to private-sector disciplines.

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The disciplines that are the subject of greatest number of publications in the world are economics and psychology.

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Some 110 UK universities appear in these subject rankings, which look at 30 disciplines.

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Leadership is subject to change just like all other disciplines.

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These goals can be achieved by ensuring that teachers in other disciplines are also focusing on reading and writing to build knowledge within their subject areas.

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