Welcome change of focus from individual identification to systemic process in gifted education

Developing talent in young people and nurturing gifts is always in the interests of any nation. How best to do this is the vexing question. One of the difficulties is the existence of controversy around who are the gifted and talented. Many decades have been spent focusing on identifying these people and there is to date no concensus on the issue. The identification of gifted people is contentious, so too is the best way of developing their talents.