The National Programme:

Gifted and Talented education seeks to improve the education of gifted and talented children and young people aged 3-19 in schools and colleges throughout England. Its core objectives are to:

• Achieve significant, measurable improvement in the attainment, aspirations, motivation and self-esteem of gifted and talented pupils and students, especially those at risk of underachieving, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Improve the quality of identification, provision and support in schools, colleges, clusters, partnerships and LEAs, giving priority to the weakest, and develop robust quality standards to support this.
• Develop tools, and identify and use levers, to help ensure that every maintained school and college in every LEA is equipped to differentiate teaching and learning to meet individual needs at the upper end of the ability range.

Further information about Gifted and Talented:

The national programme includes sub-programmes for Early Years and Primary Education and for Secondary and Further Education. There are cross-cutting projects providing support for:

• pupils, students, parents, carers and other 'customers';
• educators of gifted and talented students at all levels
• schools and colleges
• the infrastructure of gifted and talented education at local, regional and national levels; and
• the global dimension of gifted and talented education 

For further information about the national programme please refer to:

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/giftedandtalented/

There you will find more details of all aspects of our work including:

• the gifted and talented strands of Excellence in Cities - including Excellence Clusters and Primary Rollout - and Aimhigher
• London Gifted and Talented, the other regional networks and the rural network
• the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - NAGTY
• the gifted and talented strand of PESSCL, the PE, School Sports and Club Links project
• the develoment of quality standards for gifted and talented education
• CPD training available through Oxford Brookes University
• our annual conference programme

Or, if you wish to visit the website of one of our partners, please use the following links: 
 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/gifted/
 
http://www.londongt.org/homepage/index.php
 
http://www.activesurrey.com/content-1148 
 
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/rescon/cpdgifted/