Conclusion

It will be for the forthcoming Scottish Parliament to consider in detail how it wishes to take forward the future proposals set out in Targeting Excellence. In the meantime, the Government wishes to stimulate wide-ranging discussion of its proposals and the framework set out in Targeting Excellence. It wants everyone in Scotland to share its vision of what is necessary to ensure that our schools system is a world leader - a system to which people outside Scotland look for ideas and examples of good practice and a system in which the levels of attainment compare favourably with any other system. The Government believes we can achieve that by targeting excellence.