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In Canada, a white paper is "a policy document, approved by Cabinet, tabled in the House of Commons and made available to the general public". [7] The "provision of policy information through the use of white and green papers can help to create an awareness of policy issues among parliamentarians and the public and to encourage an exchange of ...
In March 2020, Paper launched an education industry-focused blog. The Paper blog includes educator spotlights, industry interviews, and a series about coping with school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] The company has released a series of White Papers and guides for the education and edtech industry.
They make the case, advanced in documents like the NCTE-WPA White Paper on Writing Assessment in Colleges and Universities, [10] that good assessment is locally contextualized, based in the principles of the discipline, and must be used to improve teaching and learning at the local level.
The Labour Secretary of State for Education Edward Short said in a speech to the National Union of Teachers in 1969: "In my view the publication of the Black Paper was one of the blackest days for education in the past century", [5] but ten years later the Black Paper proposals were "at the root of mainstream Labour and Tory policy". [6]
The Education Act 1944 made it a duty of local education authorities to provide school meals and milk. The authority could remit the charge for the meal in cases of hardship. [ 17 ] The Provision of Free Milk Regulations 1946 ( SR&O 1946 /1293), made under section 49 of the 1944 act, provided free school milk to all children under 18 in ...
The twelve paper in the series, Education and lifelong learning in an independent Scotland, was published on 25 March 2024 by Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Jenny Gilruth. The paper acknowledges "Scotland’s distinct and independent education system predates the devolution era and the international excellence of Scottish education ...
The 1976 Education Act forbade selection of pupils by ability, officially ending the Tripartite System. The abolition of the grammar schools benefitted private schools. Free, high-quality education for grammar school pupils had dramatically reduced independent school pupil numbers, from around 10% of the school population to 5.5% [citation needed].
Academic style has often been criticized for being too full of jargon and hard to understand by the general public. [11] [12] In 2022, Joelle Renstrom argued that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on academic writing and that many scientific articles now "contain more jargon than ever, which encourages misinterpretation, political spin, and a declining public trust in the ...