He says many,if not all, of the top American colleges once had a core curriculum a set of courses required for all students.
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Journalism instructors with work experience in developing countries or emerging democracies were then carefully selected from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America to write the syllabuses for seventeen corecourses.
The original plan had been for the first candidates to start courses in 2015 and take the new-look exams two years later, initially in three core subject areas - English, maths and sciences - with an extension later to history, geography and languages.