- Promotes 'Access and Success'.

- Notes that rising retention rates have resulted in a more diverse student population creating an emergent need for a curriculum that can cater to a more diverse student population.

- Identifies seven learning areas.

- Recommends curriculum reform and renewal to meet the needs of a rapidly changing society.

- Recognises disadvantage and attempts to find ways of overcoming disadvantage.

- Promotes school-based curriculum development and decision making.

- Promotes curriculum that is relevant to all students and relevant to the contemporary world.

- Emphasises the importance of school-community partnerships and sequential learning.

- Promotes non-competitive assessment and argues that student achievements should be monitored but not by comparison with others (compulsory level) and classrooms should be mixed-ability.