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Focuses on the use of the ancient craft of the quill to teach history to British students. History of the craft; Description of the illuminated manuscript and copied books produced by medieval monks in Cheshire, England.

The article presents the author's views on a white paper in England which will take care of the local education authorities and children's education in the country. This white paper is about a shift of power and it will give rights of self determination to parents and communities who see their children's education as priority. They will no longer have to accept a compromise education designed to meet other people's complex agendas of geo-political and financial agendas. The white paper will also put invisible children and their families in the picture for the first time.

Focuses on the problems associated with the delivery of examination papers to various schools in England. Concerns over the security of test papers; Failure of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to heed repeated requests; Validation of examination results.

The article discusses the release of documents in heavily redacted form by the Department for Education (DfE) under the Freedom of Information Act in 2017. The documents include information about the use of unofficial Office for Standards in Education report in justifying an academy transfer and the investigation of a multi-academy trust for director's payments. The DfE cited reasons for redactions to paper of headteacher board, which include withholding individuals' personal information.

The article reports that backbenchers, ex-ministers and Estelle Morris, a former education secretary in Great Britain are opposing the government's white paper on education. They claim that the legislation for setting up independent trust schools would not be in favor of disadvantaged pupils. The ministers suggest that local authorities be given the power to stop schools expanding. According to the British Humanist Association trust schools would lead to segregation and sectarianism in education.

The article presents a perspective on issues regarding the argument within the government over the education white paper in Great Britain. According to the author, the Prime Minister wants to persuade the people on the importance of his education reform. Some have criticized the reform as complicated and will have no effect on education.

Reports on the rejection of the lifelong learning White Paper document by Prime Minister of England, Tony Blair. Reason Blair rejected the paper; Comments from Graham Lane, education chairman of the Local Government Association. INSET: On the brink of national acclaim, by Nagio Crequer.

Focuses on Great Britain's Department for Education and Employment's (DFEE) White Paper on education. Number of responses the department received for its White Paper; Details on the White Paper.

Comments on the response of the Worker's Educational Association (WEA) to the Green Paper of the government in Great Britain. Redistribution of funds from research into higher education teaching and breaking down of institutional barriers to achieve the `learning age' that is outlined in the Green paper; Endorsement by the WEA of the findings of the Fryer report `Learning in the Twenty-First Century' which informed the government's thinking.

The article explores the marks given by professors at an experiment by the "Times Higher Education" about educational evaluation. Marker 4, who gave the lowest score of 0/100, said that he gave the score because he immediately noticed the scale of paraphrasing from the book by John Cottingham and the use of unattributed sources, which is likely from the Internet. Marker 8, who gave a score of 66/100, cited that the reason for such a score is the nice explanation of the arguments by Descartes as the author picked up some things students might have missed.

Reports that students from China and other Asian countries are using fake English-language certificates to try to enroll in overseas universities. Issuance of forged English competency certificates through the British Council's International English Language Testing System (IELTS); Cost of fake certificates.

Looks into a report on the educational system of England for 14 to 19-year-old students. Issue on how much the proposals will cost and how funding will be allocated; Focus on five themes familiar to anyone in the educational sector; Discovery of the fact that effective partnership needs planning and hard work.

Focuses on schools offering on-screen versions of Basic and Key Skills testing in Great Britain. Improvement of results at Gateway sixth-form college in Leicester, England.

Recounts an author's experience in Swaziland. Description of the country's educational system; Views of teachers regarding the ability of the author's son to perform complicated mathematical equations; Identification of requests received by the family from students; Realization that a bath plug and loo roll are the only vital accessories found in Swaziland.

Assesses the Information Communications Technology activities of the pilot schools in Worcestershire, England. Capability of the student to create a personalized online portfolio work; Support of transfer between schools; Enhancement of the learning opportunities.

Reports on the course of study to improve school management in London, England. Elimination of barriers to teamwork in education; Discussion of issues related to the learning process; Quality of teacher training.

Reports on the media's reaction to the idea of a baccalaureate-type diploma system for England. Lambasting of the proposal as a 'confidence trick' by the 'Daily Telegraph'; Support for the proposal by 'The Guardian'; Warning on difficulties by the 'Daily Mirror.'

Relates the experience of the author as director of education in England. Strategy in planning; Importance of benchmarking; Views on the importance of targets.

Focuses on the computer-assisted education systems in Great Britain. Introduction of the 'Paperless School' project; Envision of a school equipped with Web-pads linking to the Internet; Provision of outside publishers and educators on the project network.

Focuses on a freelance journalist's foray into the world of teaching. Enrollment in a post-16 teaching course at a local tertiary college in Great Britain; Culture clash between her old job and her proposed job; Comments about the grids for planning.

Presents news concerning education in Great Britain, compiled as of March 31, 2000. Government's criticism of Summerhill's teaching standards; Failure of black children to secure good education; Inability of parents to cope with their children's homework.

Reveals that Scotland has failed to produce a coherent plan on lifelong learning. Comments from Association of University Teachers Scotland (AUTS); Assessment of the AUTS on the government policy in education.

Weighs the plan of the government of Great Britain on the performance-related pay for teachers. Pros and cons of the proposal; Comparison on how teachers were paid in the early 1970s and 1990s; Reservations about the proposal.

Reports on Tibet's education system. Proposed establishment of a middle school for each township by the year 2000; Statistics on illiteracy presented by Gyaincain Norbu, president of the Tibetan Autonomous Region; Semi-illiteracy of Tibetan teachers.

The article offers information on the origin of "The Times Educational Supplement" (TES) which was launched on September 6, 1910, the days when schooling had been compulsory for children up to age 12. It mentions that the first editor of TES was George Sydney Freeman who held the post between 1910 and 1938. It also notes that the TES was established as a paper for teachers despite that it was aimed at those in private and grammar schools. INSET: Iz it because I iz a TES writer?.

Reports the progress in teaching informations and communications technology (ICT) to primary school sector in England. Trends on the use of ICT among schools in the country; Effort of the Teacher Training Agency and the New Opportunities Fund to train teachers on ICT; Information on the proposal stated in the Government's Green Paper, which include national tests in ICT for all trainees. INSET: Untitled.

The article discusses Ka Ho Mok and Jin Jiang of Lingnan University's working paper "Massification of higher education challenges for admissions and graduate employment in China." The research published by the Centre for Global Higher Education and graduates in Europe, North America and East Asia negatively affected in terms of employment and social mobility by the expansion of higher education.

The article focuses on the threat posed by the imminent dominance of non-university institutions known as Fachhochschulen in doctorates to the organisational identity of the higher education system in Germany, based on a paper by professor Michael Vogel. The goal of the institutions is to offer higher education in more applied and vocational areas. The paper points out that the Bologna Process has contributed to the break down of barriers, distinguishing the institutions from universities.

The article discusses the paper of Jonathan Supovitz, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, that urge the American educators to adapt the English education system. Topics include the role of school teachers to manage the student behavior within a school, the difference between the teaching model in the U.S. and Great Britain, and the effort of U.S. education team to adapt the "Teaching Leaders", a program of Great Britain education system.

Presents information on `The Grammar Papers' which will be introduced to help teach English grammar in England. When The Grammar Papers are expected to be sent out to schools; What the survey done by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority revealed; Features of the papers.

In this article, the author focuses her efforts to provide education to children in Uganda as of March 2014. Topics discussed include the development of school for Ugandan children, set up of extra homework for students who miss school days, and efforts to make children realise the importance of learning. Other topics discussed include the impact of work on the education of Uganda, and the works of school leaders in education and the distribution of question papers to students.

The article reports on the implication of the Standard Attainment Tests (Sats) to the return of test papers to schools in Great Britain. It notes that strict quality control in the key stage 2 English Sats marking could cause delay on the return of the papers to schools. Survey shows that 30 percent more than the required markers are recruited. It points out that there are an additional reserve markers to allow for the expected drop-outs during standardization.

This article presents an editorial by the author who submitted a green paper called "Care Matters" to the government in the United Kingdom about proposals for changing the education of children in foster care. The paper highlights the problems that foster children face and proposals that can help lead them to better academic achievement.

The article discusses the Liberal Democrats Children and Families policy paper which is set to be published. The Lib Dem policy paper calls for better support for "kinship careers," in which looked-after children should be placed with members of the extended family. It also requires schools to promote the educational attainment of looked-after children, provide greater support in school including small classes in literacy and give intensive fostering for those with behavioral problems.

The article focuses on Simon Burgess, professor of economics at Bristol University and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation. He presented the findings of research on the economics of parental choice to the Prime Minister's Strategy unit the day before the British government published its White Paper on education. He reacted to the White paper saying that he wants to see more emphasis being placed on support for poorer families to make choices.

Reports on the comments of Robert Hill, former special adviser to education secretary Charles Clarke, about why ministers have produced many education white papers in Great Britain. Need for ministers to justify their investment in education; Important educational issues addressed in white papers; Reactions of head teachers to the comments of Hill.

Reports on the possibility of long-term replacement of A-levels with a diploma exam by 2008 according to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly. Implications of Kelly's statement; Claims by civil servants that the statement did not contradict the government's white paper proposals; Criticism of the government after the white paper proposed a set of vocational diplomas to exist alongside GCSE and A-levels.

Comments on the exporting of exam papers overseas to be marked. Implication of the exportation for Great Britain educational system; Assertion that there are too many examination papers to be marked; Suggestion to let the teachers do the work of assessment ; Unnecessary expense caused by too many examinations; Benefits teachers will get from doing the assessment themselves.

Focuses on the significance of the Green Paper on badly behaved teenagers in Great Britain. Determination of policies designed to break the barrier between education and other services that work with challenging teenagers; Advantages of the paper to teachers; Establishment of Children's Trusts to provide services for young people.

Discusses "Top of the Class: Benchmarking Scottish Higher Education," a report released by the Universities Scotland about the quality of research programs of Scottish universities. Costs of Scottish research papers; Number of times academic papers by Scottish researchers are cited by other researchers; Comparison with research programs from other countries.

The article presents various teaching tips. Experiment with the sounds made by drums. Tighten or loosen the skin by small amounts and ask children to tap, press, stroke, scratch, caress and scrape them with their fingertips and fingernails. Place your hand in a polythene bag for about 10 minutes and it will feel clammy. Then test the inside of the bag with cobalt chloride paper to show that this has been caused by water. You can use this indicator paper to find out which part of the exposed skin produced the most sweat in a certain amount of time.

Discusses the huge amount of paper that will be wasted by downloading the report of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). Total sheets of paper needed to distribute the document to governors and senior management teams of primary schools in Great Britain; Summary of the Ofsted findings.

Reports on Birmingham, England-based teacher Alma Evers' experience while marking test papers for the AQA examination board. Examination board's failure to provide Evers all the test papers to be marked; Apology issued by the board to Evers.

The article discusses the state of the education system in Wales, particularly focusing on its poor test results from the A-level and General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations. It addresses policy decisions made in the early 2000s that eliminated formal assessments of Welsh students in favor of teacher-led assessment. It notes the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa), Welsh education minister Leighton Andrews, and underperformance in key skills. INSET: Paper problem.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Starkey's a Celebrity, Get Him Out of Here," in the August 25, 2011 issue, "Inflammatory Language," by Geoffrey K. Pullum in the August 18, 2011 issue and "Elaborate, Ineffectual and Unfair: The White Paper Takes a Beating" in the August 18, 2011 issue.

The article discusses the findings by "The Global Research Report on Russia," by Thomson Reuters which showed that Russia's intellectual output has declined. It states that in 1994, the nation produced about 29,000 papers, whereas in 2008, it fell to 27,600. Reasons cited include the political fallout from the break up of the Soviet Union, which resulted in reduced funding for academics, and the lack of prestige associated with science. However, it has maintained its ranking in the life sciences and the environment, and kept its international ties.

The article reports that India is expected to surpass by 2020 the research output of the world's leading industrial nations. It notes that India is still behind other comparator countries in research investment and productivity but could soon change with the government's decision to significantly increase spending on education and scientific research. It reveals that India has produced 30,000 scientific papers in 2007 and it is expected that its research productivity will be at par with other industrialized nations within seven to eight years.

The article discusses the author's experience of teaching students of tenth standard during the football World Cup 2006. The students are supposed to prepare for their business studies exam but most of them bunked classes to watch the World Cup. The author observed that it is an obvious clash of values between home and school which demonstrates that parents and pupils have the same view of education. The students have considered watching football more important than preparing for their business studies exam. The author gave students a short past exam paper on finance, and she observed that they knew very little about their subject.

The article provides information on how to ensure good results from an examination. The teacher must inform the students about the type of questions that will be on the paper and what is expected from each one in order to gain full marks. The author also discusses the ways on how to build up confidence by starting with easier exam questions and peer or self-assessment.

The article reports on the warning given by government adviser and Sutton Trust chair Peter Lampl about the education white paper as a recipe for further social division in Great Britain. An evidence which shows that the country's top-performing comprehensives are socially exclusive and are not taking their fair share of disadvantaged pupils was published by Sutton Trust.