As part of the Partnership fora Better Scotland commitment to increase teacher numbers to 53,000 by 2007 thereis the provision of 1,000 additional visiting specialists, which includes art andmusic teachers, working across the primary and secondary boundary.Significant financial investmentis being made in the training, induction and recruitment of these additional teachersto meet the commitments. We are in the final stages of discussions with COSLA aboutthe distribution of funding to employ extra teachers.