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The article reports on the claim by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) as of April 2021 that the British government failed to communicate its strategy and plans to reform adult education and skills in its White Paper. Topics include the claim by the Nuffield Foundation's Josh Hillman on the expected increased demand for post-18 education and training after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the comment by Association of Colleges' David Hughes on the IFS findings.

The announcement that the Government has effecively abandoned its 'Educaion for All' Bill, unveiled in the Queen's Speech on 18 May, was made quietly via a writen Parliamentary statement. Its demise, however, does not come as any great surprise. The doomed Bill's origins were in the widely-trumpeted White Paper, Educaional Excellence Everywhere, announced on 17 March by Jusine Greening's predecessor as Educaion Secretary, Nicky Morgan. The most controversial aspect of the White Paper was the proposal that all schools either had to have converted to academy status or have plans in place to do so, by 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the statement of Chris Waterman, chairman of the Supply and Teacher Training Advisory Group, during the group's meeting held in England on March 21, 2016 which focuses on British white paper entitled "Educational Excellence Everywhere." It mentions several factors of a reformed education system for the development a world-class teaching profession including national strategy, planning and decision making, and objective evidence-based decisions.