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Provides a comprehensive listing and summary of research relating to literacy policy and practice. Abstracts of research findings; Project applying ethnographic-style methods to the training of literacy facilitators who teach literacy to women in rural India; Project commissioned by the Local Government Association to produce 12 case portraits, each focused on an individual learner and covering all age ranges, to illustrate various types of local authority support for a range of learning needs; Paper which provides an up-to-date analysis of the state of early childhood education in Great Britain, both in terms of policy and research outcomes.

The article lists several research papers that have been published in the Comparative Education in February 2013 including "Confucian states and learning life: making scholar-officials and social learning a political contestation" by SoongHee Han, "Bridging East and West educational divides in Singapore" by Prem Kumar and "Educational practice in India and its foundations in Indian heritage: a synthesis of the East and West?" by Madhu Singh.