- Promotes 'Access and Success' and presents a democratic view of schooling.

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

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

- Promotes school-based curriculum development.

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

- Emphasises the importance of 'balance' in the curriculum.

- Promotes the idea of an integrated curriculum and integrated approaches to 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.

- Emphasises the role of students taking responsibility for their learning, including self-evaluation and the importance of developing self-awareness.
- Further elaborates on the idea of a 'curriculum framework' raised in Ministerial Paper No. 6.