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Reports on the development of guidance for teaching three to five-year-olds by the government in Great Britain. Simplification of the existing education guidelines; Formulation of coherent strategy promoting a play-based approach matching each child's needs; Plans of the Department for Education and Skills' Sure Start Unit to launch a formal consultation next spring.

Analyzes why bad further-education news in Great Britain is not on the front page of every newspaper every day of every week in light of the observation that bad news sells. Recommended headlines for bad events in further education, such as the cash crisis in education.

Reports that English teachers are complaining against key stage three English tests for 14-year-old students. Criticism of the language of the question; Complaints about Macbeth questions; Problems with the reading task; Claim by the National Assessment Agency that all Shakespeare questions were of equal standard.

Presents a letter to the editor about the diploma for students working at entry level.

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.

Reports on the use of handmade puzzle valentine card from 1790 and a telegram announcing the sinking of Titanic to draw public attention at a museum of science and industry in Manchester, England. Exhibition of the handwritten telegram to highlight the diversity of Britain's archive collection; Other initiatives to attract public attention; Significance of the archives for the pupils.

Looks into the proposal for electronic examinations in England. Advantages of electronic exams; Number of subject items from national tests for key stages 1, 2, and 3; Views of education experts on the matter.

Reports on the results of a survey of part-time lecturers by the Learning and Skills Council in Great Britain. Reliance of colleges on part-timers; Cases of lecturers spending; Low-cost measures that could improve the morale of part-timers; Hourly pay for part-timers.

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.

Introduces the CD-Rom to replace examination specifications and support materials for foreign language instruction. Guide offering detailed advice on preparation for the examination; Features of the oral training booklet; Sections with assessment commentary and mark.

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 benefits reaped by teacher Andy Ross-Smith from the workload agreement with the British government. Reduction of time doing administrative work; Contribution of high technology tools in making his work easier.

Reports on the issue concerning the salary for teachers in further education and their recruitment in England. Earning powers in education; Identification of the qualifications and expertise of some teachers; Possession of higher vocational qualifications.

Focuses on the revision of school policies and the school improvement plan in Great Britain. Role of teachers in implementing the plans; Consideration of the learning policy for the students; Management of children in school.

Reports on school reports in Great Britain. Assessment and reporting arrangements for key stages 1, 2 and 3; Downloading of the autumn package from the Department for Education and Skill's website; Performance and assessment data which compare schools in similar circumstances.

Reports on the burden experienced by local authorities, government offices and public and voluntary organizations due to the European Social Fund. Aim to develop the labor market; Encouragement of lifelong learning, equal opportunities and entrepreneurship; Reduction in funding after 2006.

Reports on the forecast that pupils in Great Britain will take the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations electronically by year 2005. Subjects to be piloted; Approval to be required by the on-screen GCSE from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

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.'

Comments on the commitment of the British government in providing a skills strategy in continuing education.

Analyzes the legislative proposal for improving skills and learning in British continuing education. Commitment of the government to ensuring education for every adult; Collaboration between the government and industries; Failure in reviving individual learning accounts.

Reports on the complaints of teachers and pupils to the English tests for 14-year-olds in Great Britain. Topic of the test; Impetus to the confusion suffered by the pupils in answering the test; Response of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority to the complaints.

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

Presents tips for school governors concerning paperwork in Great Britain. Quality and relevance of paperwork; Minutes of governing body meetings; Legal powers of minutes and reports.

Reports on a junior school's use of CD-ROM to reduce the paperwork of teachers in Great Britain. Laptop computers provided to teachers; Curriculum support materials and lesson plan templates included in the CD-ROM; Training of head teachers concerning the use of the scheme.

Comments on the efforts of the government to reduce bureaucracy in adult education in Great Britain. Proposal of using electronic data collection; Citation of the process of getting research funds; Failure of the government to implement successful initiative.

Focuses on the problem faced by the colleges due to the resignation of managers and lecturers in Great Britain. Increase of the recruitment crisis; Effect on the pay of the teachers; Impact of the issue on the education standard.

Comments on the paperwork of school governors in Great Britain. Level of paperwork governors should accept; Type of paperwork; Designation of internal paperwork to clerks.

Reports the reduction in the amount of information demanded from colleges in Great Britain. Functions on the taskforce on college information gathering; Reasons in the requests for information; Initiative to lessen bureaucracy.

Lists the winners of the 'Times Educational Supplement' periodical's Newsday competition for the best school newspapers in Great Britain. Best primary and secondary newspapers; Best international newspaper; Feature writers; Best web site.

Comments on the speech presented by Great Britain Education Secretary Estelle Morris on adult education during the conference of the Learning and Skills Development Agency in Great Britain. Emphasis of the speech; Implications for adult education policy; Issues with the funding of adult education.

Reports the proof-reading error in the key skills test for communication in Great Britain. Defense statements of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority over the errors; Value of the offending question in the test; Inevitability of mistakes in examination system.

Reports the aims of the Learning & Skills Council on college paperworks in Great Britain. Simplification of the audit and data collection systems; Views of Learning chairman Sir George Sweeney on the duplication of data gathering; Private session of the Skills Council on the bureaucracy.

Reports the creation of a taskforce by Learning and Skills Council to fight bureaucracy. Centralization of power in the public sector; Support for the simplification of the funding system; Reduction of Learning and Skills Council bureaucracy.

Profiles George Sweeney, principal of Knowsley College in Merseyside, England. Appointment as head of an anti-bureaucracy taskforce; Visions for the organization; Support of public officials to the task force.

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.

Comments on the significance for implementation of quality assurance in schools during the meeting of school governors in Great Britain. Status of school administration; Demands of teachers on salary; Importance of quality assurance to the pupils.

Reports on the protest of King James's school headteacher David Hudson of Yorkshire, England on his paperworks as a manifestation of bureaucracy in British education. Sources of the documents; Photograph of the red tape problem sent to Education Secretary Estelle Morris; Lack of confidence in ministers to achieve the aim of cutting the excessive bureaucracy.

Comments on the continuing bureaucracy in the workload of college teachers in Great Britain. Absurdity in letting teachers write the same lesson plan four times in longhand; Situation in colleges; Government justification of the bureaucracy.

Reports on the opposition by some groups to the British government's proposal for greater business involvement in schools. Concerns about the plans by the Surrey County Council, the Local Government Association, the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Head Teachers.

Explains how a selected group, the National Teacher Research Panel ensures that teachers influence the future of education research in Great Britain. Providing teachers perspective on proposals for new studies; Encouraging teachers to become involved in research work; Background of the group; Conducting a conference that showed how teachers can use research to improve their professional effectiveness.

Cites several published articles about education in Great Britain. `Mail on Sunday's article about the General Teaching Council's issuance of a draft `code of practice' which tells teachers what opinions they should have; `Sunday Times' article about the British government's strategy to encourage religious schools on grounds that Muslims deserve the same treatment as Catholics or the Church of England.

Presents the views of British newspapers regarding the need for the country to recognize the role of teachers in the community and the performance of Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Richard Caborn.

Presents education issues discussed in various periodicals published in Great Britain as of May 25, 2001. Stand of Liberal Democratic Party on education; Observation on the Labour government's obsession over the economics of education and its indifference to human beings.

Presents excerpts of articles about education published in newspapers in Great Britain during the week of May 18, 2001.

Presents excerpts from various British newspapers focused on education compiled as of April 27, 2001. Duty of citizenship courses of reminding the youth of the ideals and sacrifices that have made present broad-mindedness possible; Stand of the government on education standards; Issue of the value of inspection reports in assessing whether schools have good standards of teaching and discipline.

Presents newspaper articles about education in Great Britain, released as of April 13, 2001. Improvements in pupil-teacher ratio in secondary schools; Major duties of headteachers; Tuberculosis outbreak at a school in Leicester, England.

Presents excerpts of articles about education, from selected newspapers in Great Britain.

Presents education news items in Great Britain, as published in the March 16, 2001 issue of 'The Independent' and March 20, 2001 issue of 'Daily Express.' Comments on David Blunkett as a political leader; Solution to the teacher shortage.