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16 Jan 18
There were 3,750 teachers in England on long-term leave for stress in 2016-17, research by the Liberal Democrats has found.
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8 Jan 18
Most areas planned to continue to offer local authority school improvement services, despite the drift of schools out of council control under free school and academy programmes.
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6 Dec 17
Health and education ministers have issued joint plans to improve the mental health support available to children in schools and colleges.
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24 Nov 17
The government is failing to recruit enough teachers and stopping current staff from leaving the profession, school leaders warned today.
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22 Nov 17
The government will provide £40m to train maths teachers across the country to give pupils the knowledge needed for the digital economy, chancellor Philip Hammond said in his Budget statement.
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15 Nov 17
A letter endorsed by 5,000 head teachers across England has been handed to Downing Street calling for an extra £1.7bn in school funding.
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16 Oct 17
Head teachers are urging MPs to take the education funding crisis seriously, warning that school budgets are at “breaking point”.
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4 Oct 17
School leaders are feeling a squeeze on budgets because many have never had to properly ration their resources until now.
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26 Sep 17
Facts and figures from the October 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine, our international special, on global literacy rates, the cost of a college education and which countries have the best...
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25 Sep 17
Almost all school staff in England are paying for classroom resources out of their own pockets to plug funding gaps, according to new research.
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18 Sep 17
Efforts to improve teacher training and retention have failed to demonstrate a positive impact or value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
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15 Sep 17
The government has announced details of its new funding system for schools aimed at eliminating the postcode lottery affecting the education sector.
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1 Sep 17
Almost half of councils risk being unable to meet rising demand for secondary school places within the next five years, the Local Government Association has warned.
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29 Aug 17
A national system would end the current postcode lottery that is school funding. School leaders now have the opportunity to tell the government what a fair system would look like, says Julia Harnden
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24 Aug 17
England’s education system needs to undergo significant improvement if it is to keep pace with the world’s best, an Education Policy Institute report has warned.
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4 Aug 17
The poorest pupils have fallen further behind their non-disadvantaged peers since 2007, an Education Policy Institute report has found.
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27 Jul 17
The government has abandoned the Conservative manifesto pledge to introduce free school breakfasts.
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18 Jul 17
Teaching unions have blasted the government’s pledge to increase school budgets by £1.3bn from efficiencies within the Department for Education as “smoke and mirrors”.
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5 Jul 17
The government has dropped the controversial Conservative manifesto commitment to scrap free school meals for infants.
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23 Jun 17
Caps on public sector pay have driven an increase in teacher vacancies, the Association of Schools and College Leaders has claimed.
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2 Jun 17
The schools’ national funding formula is designed to be equitable but can such radical changes succeed alongside deep spending cuts?
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30 May 17
Conservative school spending plans would result in a real terms cut while Labour would increase real terms expenditure, experts have concluded.
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25 May 17
The Welsh Government could do more to ensure value for money for its £1.5bn school modernisation programme, a Welsh Audit Office report has concluded.
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25 May 17
Conservative plans to provide free breakfast for every primary school pupil have been undercosted by millions, the Education Datalab think-tank has warned.
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14 May 17
Teaching unions have called on every candidate in the general election to pledge to address the “funding crisis” which they claim will costs schools £3bn a year by 2020.
16 Jan 18There were 3,750 teachers in England on long-term leave for stress in 2016-17, research by the Liberal Democrats has found.
8 Jan 18Most areas planned to continue to offer local authority school improvement services, despite the drift of schools out of council control under free school and academy programmes.
6 Dec 17Health and education ministers have issued joint plans to improve the mental health support available to children in schools and colleges.
22 Nov 17The government will provide £40m to train maths teachers across the country to give pupils the knowledge needed for the digital economy, chancellor Philip Hammond said in his Budget statement.
4 Oct 17School leaders are feeling a squeeze on budgets because many have never had to properly ration their resources until now.
26 Sep 17Facts and figures from the October 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine, our international special, on global literacy rates, the cost of a college education and which countries have the best...
15 Sep 17The government has announced details of its new funding system for schools aimed at eliminating the postcode lottery affecting the education sector.
29 Aug 17A national system would end the current postcode lottery that is school funding. School leaders now have the opportunity to tell the government what a fair system would look like, says Julia Harnden
24 Aug 17England’s education system needs to undergo significant improvement if it is to keep pace with the world’s best, an Education Policy Institute report has warned.
27 Jul 17The government has abandoned the Conservative manifesto pledge to introduce free school breakfasts.
2 Jun 17The schools’ national funding formula is designed to be equitable but can such radical changes succeed alongside deep spending cuts?
30 May 17Conservative school spending plans would result in a real terms cut while Labour would increase real terms expenditure, experts have concluded.
25 May 17The Welsh Government could do more to ensure value for money for its £1.5bn school modernisation programme, a Welsh Audit Office report has concluded.
