The process of 'decluttering' the curriculum to allow teachers greater flexibility, with less formal rigidity in the content of lessons, will involve streamlining the existing curriculum guidelines covering the three-to-five and five-to-14 age groups.
By 2007 there will be one set of guidelines to facilitate easier movement through the various stages of the curriculum, and schools will be given some latitude in how they implement them.
Minister for education and young people Peter Peacock has accepted in full A Curriculum for Excellence, a report from a review group which sets out the principles for the new curriculum and provides 'a template for a phased process of reform'.
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