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Assesses some framework issues of educational policy and provision that affect the connections between teaching and research in higher education. Factors that eroded the presumption of a linkage between research and teaching; Application of the Humboldtian research contribution and style in British higher education; Levels of generality of the arguments against the separation of teaching and research; Differences of teaching and research.

Offers the author's thoughts on education and vocational training in the UK. Mention of the rating of British education in a survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to that in Europe; Decline in the number of low-skill jobs for adults in Britain; Reference to a white paper reporting literacy and numeracy problems in unemployed people and a low productivity rate in UK; Discussion of a study by Alexandra Jones and Andy Westwood, analysts at the Work Foundation think tank, which pronounced the further education sector a "national disgrace".

This article discusses the development of education policy under the Labour Party in Great Britain. A white paper released by Ed Balls, the secretary of state for children, schools, and families, on June 30, 2009 describes education reforms designed to increase the scope of student evaluation, provide students with remedial and advanced classes, and create a teaching license renewal system. The Labour Party plan for school reform is criticised for micromanaging teacher performance.

The article reports that October's education white paper set out a vision of "independent state schools" managing their own admissions and finances, competing to attract parents and free to expand to meet demand. Private schools, including religious ones, will find it easier to move into the state sector, and failing schools will have to improve within a year or risk being closed or taken over. These proposals are facing strong opposition from many Labour MPs.

Focuses on education policies in Great Britain under the Labor Party. Claim that Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's decision to keep the General Certificate of Secondary Education and A-levels was a domestic policy failure; Case for an integrated diploma system, as proposed by former chief inspector Mike Tomlinson; Claim that the British system encourages a division between academic education and vocational learning; Reference to a paper by David Miliband of the Institute for Public Policy Research entitled "A British Baccalaureate."