Abstract
Curriculum and assessment are both key features of the changing government of education. The Department of Education and Science (DES) demonstrated that universities and the Schools Council might have views, but final decisions about the pattern of school examinations was a part of central authority. The DES prepared a secret Yellow Book, which was deliberately leaked to the press before the Prime Minister's Ruskin College speech. During 1976 DES officials had been stung by rebukes in two public documents: an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report highly critical of the lack of DES policy-making, and the House of Commons Expenditure Committee which accused the DES of reducing policy-making to resource allocation. The Norwood policy of combining curriculum and assessment seemed to be settled once and for all. Since 1979 a good deal more curriculum power has gone to the centre, and much to the political centre.
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