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The article offers information on the eight chapters of the white paper "Educational Excellence Everywhere," that was published on March 17, 2016. Topics discussed include the education excellence base on the capacity to improve and performance in England, the recruitment of talented teachers, and the empowerment of parents, communities and pupils of high performing maintained primary and secondary schools towards the academisation by 2020.

The author comments on the British government's ambition to create an education system that offers all children, whatever their background, with schooling that will aid them attain their potential. He says that the intention that selective schools should sponsor a non-selective school, or that an independent school would give greater benefit to ordinary families by setting up a free school is not probably to expand the number of good school places available to all families.

The article focuses on the recommendations of Education Policy Institute (EPI) on how the government should proceed with testing and examinations for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and A-level exams in England in 2021. Some of the recommendations include providing greater optionality in exam papers so that students would have a better chance of answering questions, allowing some grade inflation and also forming a back-up plan for exams in the case of cancellation.

The article reports that the British government has abandoned plans to help poor children attend selective schools (SS). Topics mentioned include the need for grammar schools (GS) to improve their admission for disadvantaged students, and the ideas proposed in the Department for Education's Green Paper entitled "Schools that Work for Everyone" including links between GS and non-selective schools.

Presents summaries of documents relevant to education in Great Britain from various organizations and government bodies. "A Level Standards," report from the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee; "Secondary Education: Visits to Birmingham and Auckland," report from the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee; "Best Value and Performance Improvement Circular 3/200," from the Deputy Prime Minister.

The article presents a lists of several document summaries from education authorities in Great Britain. The documents include "Identifying, engaging and locating children missing from education: handbook of procedures," "Guidance on the prevention and management of fixed-term exclusions in secondary schools," and the "Northamptonshire Inter-Agency Child Protection Procedures."

Comments on Prime Minister Tony Blair's five-year plan for secondary education in Great Britain. Urge to remodel secondary education to provide personalized services; Proposals for the establishment of Islamic foundation schools; Promotion of educational policies across the country.