Create and maintaina network of curriculum specialists, practitioners, national officers and researchers for sustained and diversified exchange, collective production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as collaborative action in the field of curriculum.

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Schools in the action zones may be allowed to drop both the national curriculum and the national agreement on teachers' pay and conditions.

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Mr Henry's motion states the current timetable does not give teachers sufficient time to familiarise themselves with the details, and believes that calls for a delay should be heeded and urgent action taken to secure consistent implementation across Scotland of all aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence.

BBC: Labour: Curriculum for Excellence

James Montoya, a vice president of the College Board, said the results are a "call to action" for students, parents and schools to ensure more teenagers enroll in a core curriculum.

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Mr Gray pressed the first minister on the Curriculum for Excellence less than a week after two teaching unions revealed they could be set to take industrial action.

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