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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 reflects on the statement of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond on school budgets and the future of education colleges or local authority children's services in Great Britain. Topics include school funding crisis in the country; government policy of providing free sanitary products in schools and colleges; and offering of technical and vocational skills in the country.

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 reports on amendments to the Technical and Further Education Bill of Great Britain proposed by politician Lord Baker, which is supposed to provide education colleges and other training providers access to inform young people about the careers options, as of February 2017. It states that the legislative move has come following the government's decision to introduce a new legislation requiring schools to allow other providers to talk about career opportunities.