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The article focuses on Great Britain Government's white paper entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, regarding access to higher education and higher education participation. It informs that the Government's aim is to go ahead with proposals to make it easier for "challenger institutions" to award their own degrees and it plans to give students more information about teaching standards and job prospects.

The article reports on Great Britain Government's white paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, on access to higher education and higher education participation. It informs that the Government's aim is to go ahead with proposals to make it easier for "challenger institutions" to award their own degrees and it plans to give students more information about teaching standards and job prospects.

Presents several published reports on the education system in Great Britain as of June 6, 2003. Plan to extend the title university to specialist higher education institutions in the "Daily Telegraph"; Report by Richard Garner in the "Independent"; Concern on the effect of education budget crisis on school scholarships in the "Times."

The article comments on Great Britain government's White Paper on higher education. It discussed the Government's priorities across the whole of education one year into this Conservative government. It is opined that in this age of globalisation, national policies have to exist in the context of global competition and with both schools and higher education the country has also seen announcements that illuminate this.