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The article reports on the bid to recruit young graduates to mark the General Certificate of Secondary Education and A-level papers at cut-price rates in Great Britain. It is expected that recruits will work from home and provide their own computer and broadband connection to mark papers using the controversial on-screen marking system from Edexcel. Edexcel is advertising for recent graduates in 68 subjects who do not need teaching experience.

The article reports on the appointment of Ray Dowd as the Learning and Skills Council Champion for change in the policy paper Agenda for Change in Great Britain. His task is to see through major reforms spelled out in the paper. Its program includes cutting bureaucracy, quality improvement, simplifying data collection, creating colleges, and improvement of the sector's reputation. He will report directly to Mark Haysom, LSC chief executive.

The article examines the education white paper proposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair in Great Britain. The white paper is a document outlining the plans of the Government for new laws. According to the paper there will be a new category of schools called trust schools and there will be a legal right for teachers to discipline students.

The article reports on the proposal of the Members of Parliament (MP) to ban "McSchools" under changes to the white paper in Great Britain. A committee members who want to block companies such as those selling fast food or toys from managing new trust schools by Labor and Liberal Democrat Commons. External bodies, including private businesses and religious groups are allowed to appoint the majority of trust school governors under the white paper.

The article focuses on the new computerised marking system in school examinations in Great Britain. The current marking procedures could certainly be improved. But even though examination marking seems to be mimicking the migration of call centres it remains a cottage industry, often undertaken by supply teachers or retired staff on small pensions trying to make ends meet. Edexcel has used onscreen marking for 4 million papers in 2005, more than three times as many as last year and now wants to have key stage 2 and 3 papers marked onscreen.

The article reports on a study funded by the British Department for Education and Skills. The study concluded that setting pupils by ability, one of the most widely-trailed parts of the white paper released by the government, has few benefits. There is no evidence that streamed or set classes produce, on average, higher performance than mixed-ability classes, said the report. It also found that setting pupils is already widespread, particularly in mathematics. The white paper calls for more grouping and setting of students by ability and says grouping students can help to build motivation, social skills and independence and most importantly can raise standards because pupils are better engaged in their own learning.

The article analyzes a white paper released by the government in Great Britain. Greater school autonomy promised in the white paper will hamper efforts to halt child abuse. Alison King, chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people's board, said limiting council control of schools could discriminate against disadvantaged children. The white paper sets out a new role for councils as commissioners, not providers, of services and heralds the end of local authority-controlled community schools. King believes that this will undermine the Government's Every Child Matters drive to improve youngsters' health, safety and economic well-being by limiting co-operation between schools and other services.

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.

Relates a teacher's experience with marking General Certificate of Secondary Education examination papers on an idyllic island off the coast of Scotland. Difficulties associated with the job; Merits of the task; Assertion of the author on the resemblance between marking papers and childbirth.

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.

Provides information about the reading paper in the national key stage 2 tests for 11-year-olds in Great Britain. Overview of the stories featured; Manifestation of the bias toward boy's interests in the examination results; Opinions of teachers and pupils to the reading paper.

Reports on the impact of changes of vocational General Certificate of Secondary Education exam on the educational system in Great Britain. Increase in the number of pupils who have difficulty to score higher markings on papers; Problems with attempts to guard against pupil cheating; Percentage of papers containing errors that requires correction, according to the Qualification and Curriculum Authority.

Discusses the British government's extension of plans to overhaul secondary education to include pupils who have just transferred from primary schools. Expected released of a White Paper in response to Mike Tomlinson's inquiry into 14 to 19 qualifications; White Paper's likely coverage of key stage 3 as ministers put fresh emphasis on arithmetic, reading and writing for all pupils; Ministers' expected rejection of Tomlinson's calls for the names General Certificate of Secondary Education and A-level to be scrapped under a new, all-embracing diploma framework.

Reports on the decision of Great Britain General Teaching Council to ban Helen Longstaff from teaching for two years after she altered test papers of her students. Discovery of the guilt of Longstaff of professional misconduct; Resignation of Longstaff; Observation of external markers that a number of answers on some of the papers had been altered.

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.

Reports that examination scripts have had to be quickly stapled back together after an experiment in electronic marking of mathematics papers was abandoned in Great Britain. Pupils' answer books; Difficulty for a marker to read part of the top of the script; Reallocation of paper for traditional marking.

Reports that public school examination papers in Great Britain were switched after a batch of A-level and General Certificate of Secondary Education papers from all three examining bodies were stolen from a school in London, England. Stealing of chemistry and maths test papers; Investigations on the theft; Statements by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

Reports on the initiative of National Union of Teachers (NUT) in opening the leadership ballot in Great Britain. Names of candidates vying to succeed Dough McAvoy as NUT general secretary; Number of ballot papers to be sent out for fee-paying members of the biggest teaching union; Requirement in filling up the ballot papers.

The article focuses on the pressure built up on children due to sale of previous year's primary test papers in Great Britain. Teachers have attacked the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and the government's exams advisors for putting pressure on children by selling last year's primary test papers. Advertisements for the test books from the BBC and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority urge parents to ensure their children succeed in national tests at the ages of seven and eleven. The National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Head Teachers said they feared parents would use the packs to place greater pressure on teachers and children.

Plans to toughen child protection by bringing together education and social services are in danger of backfiring and creating greater risks for young people. This is what teachers' unions, charities and educational advisers told the Great Britain government this week in their responses to its Green Paper Every Child Matters, which outlines radical reforms for children's services. Several of the proposals in the paper received wide support, including the introduction of a Children's Commissioner to safeguard young people's rights.

Anyone questioning the motive behind the Great Britain Department for Education and Skills paper's controversial new proposals for "workforce reform does not have to look far for the answer. The paper spells it out money, or rather a lack of it, is driving officials to think the previously unthinkable. There are other important factors: the paper refers to the teacher supply situation and the need for schools to remodel staffing so they can "raise standards and embrace modern management practices." The first priority, it says, is to talk up the idea of the "school team" of a variety of staff and illustrate how it is "affordable within current spending levels."

The schools of the future need employ just one qualified teacher, Great Britain Government officials have said. The controversial suggestion is contained in a Department for Education and Skills (DfES) paper. Entitled Workforce Reform - Blue Skies it says that schools are able to operate under new "freedoms" brought in by the workload agreement without any qualified classroom teachers and this should be further exploited. The paper acknowledges that where, support staff are used to teach, regulators say they must be supervised by a qualified teacher.

Cutting teacher numbers to pay for support staff is at the heart of the controversial paper that offers a broad vision of the "school of the future." The discussion paper Workforce Reform - Blue Skies - written by a Great Britain Department for Education and Skills (DfES) official - examines ways in which schools can provide "personalised learning" the latest DfES buzz phrase, familiar to anyone who has heard a recent speech by an education minister. But the precise meaning of the phrase remains nebulous. The paper simply says that personalised learning "puts the learning needs of each individual pupil centre stage." Easier to grasp are the concepts of introducing more learning technology, making management more effective, and promoting collaboration between schools. INSET: Main points..

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 the hiring of British teachers by examination boards to do the work of paper examiners. Incentive scheme for teachers taking extra paper load; Failure of examination boards to recruit examiners; Difficulty in marking scripts.

Reports on the public and various sectors' support of the British government's skills White Paper educational program. Features of the White Paper; Provisions of the program that will provide for adult learning.

Reports on the resignation of English teacher Adam Oliver as an examiner after Edexcel, an examination board, ordered examiners to mark AS-level papers speedily in Great Britain. Disclosure on the speed required; Claim of Oliver on the consequences of marking papers at the required speed; Response of Edexcel to the claim.

Reports the preparation for the A2 national tests of elementary students in Great Britain. Manifestation of the pressures brought by the exam among students; Problems besetting the key skill papers; Failure of examination papers to reach Nottingham college.

Reports the response of unions on the Green Paper program for secondary education in Great Britain. Qualifications for intermediate diploma; Concerns of the unions on the lack of a foundation diploma; Emphasis of the Green Paper program.

Reports that examination board Edexcel has drafted in proofreaders to check papers after a series of blunders in Great Britain. Edexcel's plan to increase spot-checks on schools to see how papers are being stored before examinations; Percentage of candidates who scored 13 out of a maximum possible 14 marks in the mathematical questions; Reason of teachers and pupils for their displeasure to Edexcel.

Focuses on education in Great Britain and how schools might jeopardize the acceptance of students at the university level. Idea that they need to request urgent re-marks of A-level papers; Indication that only 15 percent of the results, queried in the previous year, went through the so-called fast-track service where papers are remarked within 30 days of the complaint.

Comments on the proposal of the government Green Paper on the performance pay of teachers in Great Britain. Distinction between the Greena and White Paper; Uncertainty of the aims of the Green Paper; Comments of Education Secretary Estelle Morris on the need of parents to support teachers.

Comments on the proposal of the Green Paper by the British government. Abolition of the term 'vocational' from the menu of available secondary education qualifications; Failure of the Green Paper identify the problems with vocational qualifications; Integration of apprenticeship arrangements with secondary education.

Reports the rejection of teacher feedback to Edexcel organization related to the quality of papers used during the summer examination in the Great Britain. Errors in the math and economics examination papers; Response of Edexcel on the significance of the comment; Wastage of staff time to process the feedback.

Reports that British schools and colleges have defended modular exams and have warned that they are not prepared to meet the cost of writing replacement papers. Accusations against Education Secretary Estelle Morris concerning the issue of modular exams; Morris' rule for schools to have the option of a single three-hour exam paper; Changes required from schools to comply with Morris' policy.

Reports that British ministers are planning to introduce legislation before Christmas 2001 to allow private firms to operate schools. Reasons for the delay in the publication of a White Paper; Controversial issues contained in the White Paper; Reasons for the delay in plans to revamp school inspections in Great Britain.

Reports on the plans of the government of Great Britain to revise the AS-level educational system. Expected reduction of burden of examination papers in sixth forms; Combining of required papers in a single test for majority of subjects.

Reports on the resignation of Andy Kempe, head of the post-graduate certificate in education drama course at Reading University, from the Edexcel examination board handling the AS-level drama paper. Changes to the board's AS-level drama paper; Students' reactions to the changes; Edexcel's decision to enhance the board's security procedures.

Reports that primary teachers in Great Britain have requested for a review of English national test grades for the year 2000 due to dismal results. Total number of test papers returned to be re-marked; Decline in the number of requests for reviews of key stage 2 maths and science papers; Dismal results in tests related to writing.

Deals with the housing Green Paper launched by John Prescott, minister of Great Britain's Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, aimed to help teachers, nurses and other workers with the cost of homes. Comments by Prescott on reports that his department has released interest-free loans; Status of house prices according to the Green Paper entitled `Quality and choice: a decent home for all'; Home initiative plans of Prescott.

Reports that the British government plans to give temporary-teacher agencies a public seal of approval, according to the Great Britain's Department of Education and Employment's paper, `Supply Teachers: Meeting the Challenge.' Major aims of the paper; Agencies that will qualify for money from the government; Practical suggestions for school managers.

The article discusses the a White Paper released by the government to force academisation of all schools in Great Britain as of May 20, 2016. The government pushes to turn low-performing schools into academies through new leadership and governance. It also notes that the opposition raises concerns over funding, curricular freedom, and training of underperforming teachers.

Offers an opinion on the White Paper report `Learning to Succeed,' which is about the British government's program for adult learners. Contents of the paper; Comments on the document.

Questions the consultation paper launched by Charles Clarke, junior minister of schools in Great Britain on how the General Teaching Councils would work. Concern of the consultation paper with the bureaucratic task of drawing up a register of teachers; Implications to teachers; Evidence of abuse and malicious claims.

Reports on the positive response of Welsh union members to the Green Paper on teachers pay. Details on the Welsh Green Paper; Reasons for the difference in responses between teachers in Wales and those in England; Reaction of the National Union of Teachers to the paper.

Reports on the acceptance of teachers in Great Britain for the Green Paper. Additional responsibilities for teachers; Rejection of teacher payments based on results; Technical paper citing appraisal and management performance systems.

Reports that the National Union of Teachers of Great Britain is urging its members to reject the Government's Green Paper, which proposes payment by results. Overview of the Green Paper; Comments from Doug McAvoy, general secretary for the union; Reaction from Prime Minister Tony Blair.

States that if the government of Great Britain is to improve educators' salaries, then the profession must be prepared to modernize. Aim to reform the structure of the teaching profession; Case for modernization; Need for improved leadership; Claim that high quality teaching is not rewarded; Establishment of a General Teaching Council; Increased pay for advanced skills teachers; Proposed publishing of a Green Paper on the future or education; Goals of the Green Paper.

Reports how some teachers in Great Britain spend part of their summers as examination graders. Amount of money they earn on an hourly basis; Differences in the time it takes to grade papers in different subjects; Reasons why teachers decide to grade papers during the summer.

Predicts a rise in the demand for childcare training courses as a result of Great Britain's childcare strategy. Plans for childcare reform launched in `The Green Paper' by David Blunkett, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment; Impact of this paper on childcare training.