The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is to be led by a directly elected mayor under plans to devolve a host of powers to the city region, Chancellor George Osborne has announced today.
An independent review of the work of Ofsted must be held to address concerns about the independence and credibility of the schools watchdog following a number of ‘media driven’ revisions to its...
Central government and local authorities do not tackle underperformance in academies and maintained schools consistently, according to the National Audit Office.
Lecturers at 69 UK universities will start an assessment boycott next week in a row over pension changes, the University and College Union announced today.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has today launched an initiative to cut the rising administrative workload faced by teachers, as part of measures to help public sector workers.
Britain is on the brink of becoming a ‘permanently divided’ nation, with increasing numbers of people trapped in low paying jobs, shut out of the housing market and hurt by public spending cuts, the...
The government has been urged to encourage the creation of ISA-style tax free savings accounts so that students can build up money to allow them to pay for tuition without taking on loan debt.
Proposed changes to the pension scheme for university staff could see final salary benefits being phased out and a new defined contribution element introduced for high earners.
Schools watchdog Ofsted has today set out plans for a radical overhaul in the way it judges standards in England in changes that will see good schools given less thorough examinations.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has pledged to work with trade unions to devise ways to reduce the overall burden on teachers across the country as part of a 'new deal’ for the profession.
Failure by schools to tackle poor behaviour in the classroom is costing pupils as much as an hour of teaching time each day, according to a report from education watchdog Ofsted.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
Councils should be allowed to establish and run academies, the Policy Exchange think-tank has recommended as it warned that a fifth of primary schools ‘could be set to fail’.
Northern cities are being promised major new infrastructure investment to help rebalance their economies. So will the chancellor make good on his warm words of support for the One North initiative...
Public sector employment fell by a further 11,000 to 5.39 million in the second quarter of 2014 to hit the lowest level recorded since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics has...
The government must launch a national campaign to improve adult literacy and numeracy, which are at ‘alarmingly low’ levels and undermining the UK’s economic performance, MPs said today.
The government is getting better value for the £7bn spent each year on educating 16- to 18-year-olds but is unclear about exactly how this is being achieved, the National Audit Office has said.
The academy chain where David Hoare, the new head of Ofsted, has been a trustee since January has been adjudged to not be performing well enough by inspectors at the watchdog.
The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
The policy to raise the compulsory participation age in education and training to 18 next year lacks the legal underpinning it needs to be a success, the Work Foundation has warned.
The government's flagship free school meals policy faces significant underfunding after it has emerged that nearly half of all local authorities do not have enough money to bring their school...