"I can help by identifying schools with similar needs and offering targeted support.
There should be targeted support from schools, universities and employers to help Muslim women achieve their career ambitions.
Offer support beyond primary school education: Where possible, programmes should offer targeted support at various points, starting with early childhood education.
It is therefore imperative that those children who fall behind in primary or early secondary school receive targeted support to help them catch-up.
Figures published last year by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, showed that, in 2012-13, only 6% of aid to fragile states targeted supporting women's needs and gender equality (pdf).
The strategy will unveil measures to hold schools to account for their pupils' performance, ensure that they provide targeted support for any child who falls behind, and to increase support for poor young people to stay in education or training.
John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: "The government has rightly targeted support at younger workers, and we welcome the extension of the support to the under-24s".
Alexander said it was right to give targeted support to Scotland's oil and gas industry building on tax reductions and other moves made in the autumn statement on Wednesday.
It suggests a 15% reduction in smoking should be achieved by 2020 by offering targeted support for smokers and ensuring all mental health inpatient units are smoke-free by 2018.
"Besides the first part of this triad, targeted support for Ukraine, is, second, the unceasing effort to find a diplomatic solution for the crisis in the dialogue with Russia".
