35 To develop a targeted long-term public education strategy that will balance development goals of formal education, informal education, labour market and national economic priority directions. One of the main objectives is the preparation of the ICT professionals for the labour market. Content improvement of general secondary education and elementary education is planned in the framework of foreseen activities of the Development of Education guidelines for the period 20142020 (draft)32. An important role in the training of ICT professionals plays interests’ education; therefore, it is necessary to implement activities that support the development of interests’ education in the field of ICT. It is necessary to continue modernise the curriculum and digital information literacy for the school students and teachers both to support lifelong education by strengthening the capacity of environmental cognition and personal self-realisation, and to strengthen employment and competitiveness. To provide educational institutions with encyclopaedic, digital cultural heritage and research result electronic resources related to age groups and training directions. It is necessary to integrate information literacy learning in general, vocational and higher education, through building appropriate learning materials and including in syllabus tasks for development of information literacy skills. It is important to increase the role of the school libraries – promote school libraries to become information literacy centres, including the creation of digital resources’ reading rooms. In order for information literacy acquisition to become a success, teachers’ professional knowledge and skills in this area should be improved, and modern methodical aids have to be developed in collaboration with universities and industry professionals. Particular attention should be given to teaching process quality and subject content of mathematics, informatics, and natural sciences in order to provide human resources for manufacturing and high-tech based economy, through improvements in curriculum of general education schools, including implementation of an adequate number of hours for subject “Mathematics” in accordance with the development policy priorities in the field of science and mathematics. Responsible ministries together with the social partners, within the framework of educational strategic development within the period 2014 to 2020, shall take steps aimed at improvement of teachers’ foreign languages and ICT skills, usage of innovative technologies in the learning process for teaching various subjects, including provision of training to teachers related to creation of digital learning materials. It is necessary to expand usage of digital learning materials in the educational process, covering all subjects in primary and secondary education level. As a priority, activities that focus on the development of interactive and original digital learning content should be supported, creating them according to technical standards, which are supported by centralised learning materials and operations solutions developed in the education sector. Promote the usage of available materials 32 http://izm.izm.gov.lv/aktualitates/jaunumi/9812.html information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines 2014-2020