The Government wants to ensure that everybody has access to learning opportunities that can help them achieve their full potential - giving children and young people the best possible start in life as they move from school to university and college or into the workforce, providing employability and adaptability throughout life.
- School education in Scotland - performance (including international benchmarking).
- Curriculum for Excellence, system capacity - which includes Teachers, Class sizes, GLOW/ICT (Information and Technology in schools), School estate, Rural schools, Denominational schools, Parental involvement, Learning Teaching Scotland, and the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
- Curriculum for Excellence - improving the learning experience - which includes Vocational learning, National Qualifications, Assessment, Discipline and behaviour in schools, Exclusion, Attendance/ absence, Bullying, Health Promotion and Free School Meals, Additional Support for Learning, and Grant-aided schools.
- Lifelong Learning
Further and Higher Education - performance (including international benchmarking).
Skills - performance (including international benchmarking).
Employability - performance (including international benchmarking).
Skills, which includes Establishing Skills Development Scotland, Skills strategy, National training programmes, Qualifications, Information and advice (Scottish University for Industry and Careers Scotland), and National training programmes.
Further and Adult Education, which includes Further Education in Scotland - general overview, Adult Literacy and Numeracy, Community Based Adult Learning, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and Vocational learning/skills for work/school college collaboration.
Higher Education, which includes Higher Education in Scotland - general overview, Higher Education future thinking taskforce, Research, and Knowledge transfer.
Learner support, which includes Access, Education Maintenance Allowances, Further Education student support, Part time learners (including Individual Learning Accounts), Higher Education student support, Graduate Endowment Bill, and Post graduate support.
Employability, which includes Economic activity in Scotland - overview, Employability Framework (Workforce Plus), Determined to Succeed, and Young people who need more choices and more chances.
- Children, Young People and Social Care
Care and Justice, which includes Adoption, Corporate Parenting, Improving Outcomes for Looked after Children, Support for disabled children, Children affected by parental substance misuse, Kinship care, Residential Care, Historic In-care/Institutional Abuse, Kerelaw Joint Inquiry, Fostering, Youth justice, and Early intervention.
Positive Futures, which includes Children's Rights, Children of asylum seekers, Early years, Childcare, and Youthwork.
Safer children, stronger families, which includes Getting it right for every child, and Protection of vulnerable groups.
Workforce and capacity, which includes Children's Hearings, Social Services Workforce - regulation, capacity, leadership, workforce development, and Changing Lives - social work transformation programme.
Organisation and Quality, which includes Funding Children's Services.
- Science, which includes Public engagement with science and International science collaboration.