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Raising standards

4National priorities in education

(1)From time to time the Scottish Ministers, after consulting the education authorities and giving such persons as appear to the Scottish Ministers to have an interest in the matter an opportunity to make their views known—

(a)shall define, by order made by statutory instrument, priorities in educational objectives for school education provided for Scotland; and

(b)may define and publish measures of performance in respect of the priorities;

and the priorities which for the time being are the most recently so defined shall be known as the “national priorities in education”.

(2)A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (1)(a) above shall not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been—

(a)laid before; and

(b)approved by a resolution of,

the Scottish Parliament.