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The article offers information on policy papers published over the last week as of June 2, 2020, related to education system in Great Britain. It further discusses House of Commons Library briefing on the different types of financial assistance available to postgraduate students in England; impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on separated families, maintenance arrangements and access to children; and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education while closing schools.

The article focuses on the views of the British Secretary of State for Education, Nicky Morgan who made a statement on all schools becoming academies. She discussed the Government's White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere. The minister stressed that while the Government sill wanted every school to become an academy by 2022, it had always intended to be a six-year process in which good schools should be able to take their own decisions about their future as academies.

The article comments on Great Britain government's White Paper on higher education. It discussed the Government's priorities across the whole of education one year into this Conservative government. It is opined that in this age of globalisation, national policies have to exist in the context of global competition and with both schools and higher education the country has also seen announcements that illuminate this.

The article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on British education and offers two reports on the effect of COVID-19 on education including, "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children's Socioemotional Wellbeing and Attainment During the Reception Year". It offers another report, "The Impact of COVID-19 on Learning: A review of the evidence" that observes that schools have experienced unprecedented disruptions due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The article focuses on Department for Education has commissioned Renaissance Learning, and their subcontractor the Education Policy Institute, to collect data from a sample of schools to provide a baseline assessment of education lost and catch-up needs for pupils in schools in England. It mentions impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak, including how they are tackling the issue of lost education.

In the article, the author discusses developments in the education sector in Great Britain as of January 2017. Also cited are the industrial strategy green paper issued by the government that contains plans like reforming the country's technical education, the focus on skills and financing non-university learning, and the report by the National Audit Office hinting of a looming 8% cut in the schools' budgets.

The article discusses written questions answered in the British Parliament. Topics discussed include response of Robert Goodwill to the question by Angela Rayner on funding for education through the regional academy growth fund, funds allocated to English for Speakers of Other Languages and assessment of trends in the level of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools.

The article focuses on several topics related to education in Great Britain. It mentions Great Britain's Department for Education has not assessed the cost of restoring the Education Maintenance Allowance for 16 to 18- year-olds in each parental income decile according to politician Anne Milton. It also menitons schools and local authority need to draw up a Code of Conduct for issuing penalty notices, in consultation with governing bodies and head teachers.

The article reports that the Bishop of St. Albans, England, asked the British Government what assessment it had made to overcome the challenges faced by small rural schools that would undergo conversion to academy status. In response, Lord John Alfred Stoddard Nash, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education, replied that small rural schools would be provided with a named adviser in the conversion process. Nash also talked about rural housing.

The article presents insights on the problem posed by the introduction of fixed-term parliaments in defending education legacy in Great Britain. Topics covered include the previous responsibility of local authorities in providing for school places and the quality of education, the unique selling points of the city academy and the issues of concern raised on academy chains such as poor progress and lack of strategic oversight.

The article offers information on an oral question debate held at the House of Lords in Great Britain on January 24, 2018. Topics at the debate includes the steps that the government has taken to protect out-of-school children, the need for local authorities to comply with the Education Act 2002, and unregistered schools. Also discussed are the increasing number of children who are not attending school and support for parents who homeschool their children.

The article offers information on the completion of the inquiry into regional schools' commissioners (RSCs) by Education Select Committee with British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools John Nash. Topics discussed include desire to see all schools as academies, all secondary schools becoming academies, and academisation of school system; porous education borders between boroughs and the Schengen-esque movement of pupils; and Management Aptitude Test (MAT).