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The article presents the policy papers publishing last week. Topics include apprenticeship reform benefitting employers and apprentices; minutes of the meeting of the short-life working group on Recording and Monitoring Incidents of Bullying in Schools (RAMBIS); and action for educations and childcare settings preparing for the opening of schools.

The article focuses on the education of White British disadvantaged pupils, pupils of Gypsy, and Roma ethnicity. It includes information on the state funded faith schools and intake of pupils from ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. It also includes information on the University of Birmingham Free School.

Evaluates the decision of the British government to intensify institutional racism in schools through reforms in the Green Paper in Great Britain. Criticisms on the plan for vocational programmes; Appointment of Garry Hawkes as chairman of the Basic Skills Agency; Efforts of the Agency to improve the skills of individuals.

The article describes the author's experience of helping a nine-year-old kid with fractions. Topics discussed include the correct ways to add fractions; different equations to see how the unit fraction additions were connected together, and a paper-folding method for addition of fractions.

The article reports that the New Schools Network (NSN) has called on the Great Britain's Department for Education to allow parents and community groups who are running successful free schools to be allowed to take over other schools that are currently failing their pupils. Topics include in its 10th anniversary policy paper, "Free Schools: The next 10 years" report, the NSN outlines seven recommendations to reinvigorate policy which include legislation to remove barriers to new free schools.

In this article the author discusses the achievements of adult education during and after World War II, which had trained many people with skills to handle the challenges of civilian jobs on their return. He is critical of the adult education system needing to help people learn basic skills and not only to help people who have lost their jobs. Also investigated is the green paper "The Learning Age," about education for its own sake.

Recommends an increase in funding and mobilization of government resources for adult and basic education in Great Britain based on the paper titled `A Fresh Start.'