The document discusses Scotland's goals for education, including providing children the best start in life and opportunities to succeed through lifelong learning. It aims to improve the curriculum to develop skills for learning, life, and work. Technology and digital strategies are emphasized to enhance learning, assessment, and teacher development in an integrated and sustainable way. Partnerships aim to achieve financial sustainability, release efficiencies, build capacity, and commercialize and showcase Scotland's educational leadership internationally.

1. Expand opportunities for Scots to succeed from nurture through to lifelong learning ensuring higher and more widely shared achievements we are better educated, more skilled and more successful, renowned for our research and innovation our children have the best start in life and are ready to succeed we have improved the life chances for children, young people and families at risk our young people are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens A Smarter Scotland

2. A coherent 3-18 curriculum based on experiences and outcomes across all curricular areas and subjects, designed to: balance the importance of knowledge, understanding and skills promote interdisciplinary learning by making connections between individual subject areas help our children and young people become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens support learners to become more flexible, more adaptable, and develop a range of knowledge and skills. Skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work provide teachers with more flexibility, more freedom and more professional responsibility – to use their creative powers, passion and professional judgement to develop learning experiences that are relevant, exciting and inspirational Curriculum for Excellence

3. Technologies for Learning Strategy Embed technology into learning and assessment in proactive, integrated and sustainable manner for the benefit of Scotland ’s learners and Scotland’s economic growth www.technologiesforlearningstrategy.org.uk

4. Wider drivers Teaching Scotland ’s Future – a review of teacher education in Scotland 50 recommendations covering the entirety of teacher education designed to build professional capacity of our teachers improve the learning of the young people of Scotland significant emphasis on the role and potential of technologies and Glow to deliver the desired outcomes Scotland ’s Digital Future Strategy - sets out how Scotland will achieve its digital ambition under four key areas of public service delivery; digital economy; digital participation and broadband connectivity The next generation broadband will be available to all by 2020, significant progress made by 2015 The rate of broadband uptake by people in Scotland will be highest among the UK nations by 2015

5. Partnership drivers Financial Sustainability – reduce the infrastructural, applications, services and ongoing investment costs Release of efficiencies – centrally procured service achieving economies of scale at a national level, initially through core service procurement and thereafter by Local Authorities, schools and other stakeholders within the scope utilising the provided tools/service to release additional efficiencies Capacity / capability building - provide opportunities for smaller enterprises, colleges, universities and others involved in Scottish Education to develop/procure further learning resources, applications, services Commercialisation – utilise the contractual arrangement to sell core and additionally developed Glow Futures services/applications (and potentially wider educational know-how) to domestic and international markets Showcasing – showcase Scotland (partnership) as the leader in the field and an attractive destination/partnership to do business with