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13 Mar 19
The education secretary has announced 39 new free schools will be set up for children with special education needs and behavioural difficulties.
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25 Feb 19
Impossible workloads and underfunded pay deals have created a “crisis” in teacher recruitment and retention in England, a union has warned.
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19 Feb 19
Without asking people to pay more, the government will have to rein in the public's expectations on what public services they can hope to get, says the IFG’s Graham Atkins.
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8 Feb 19
The government’s 30-hours childcare scheme is “entrenching disadvantage” by failing to include the poorest children, MPs have warned.
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5 Feb 19
Parents are being increasingly pressured into home-schooling leaving councils unable to ensure children are adequately educated, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
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4 Feb 19
Between financial controversies and more fundamental questions about sustainability, the academies sector is crying out for transparency, writes Rachel Willcox.
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23 Jan 19
Academy schools are not “sufficiently transparent or accountable to parents and local communities”, MPs have said.
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11 Jan 19
The government should consider redistributing funds from schools with ‘excessive’ surpluses to bolster those with weaker finances, an education think-tank has suggested today.
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17 Dec 18
The national deficit will increase by £12bn when the Office for National Statistics changes the way it records students loans.
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17 Dec 18
Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
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4 Dec 18
Head teachers have criticised Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman for failing to acknowledge the impact of budget cuts on schools.
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23 Nov 18
An attempt to improve public finances by selling off student loans could have in fact damaged them, according to a group of MPs.
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8 Nov 18
Academy schools in England recorded a £6.1bn deficit at the end of last August, leading to one major teaching union calling them “unsustainable”.
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6 Nov 18
Universities are not providing value for money and need a “sharper focus” on graduate skills and outcomes, MPs have urged.
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28 Sep 18
More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
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25 Sep 18
Labour would scrap academies and free schools and return control of education back to councils, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the party’s conference in Liverpool today.
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3 Sep 18
Council leaders have warned of a secondary school “emergency” after calculating 134,000 children will miss out on a place in 2023-24.
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31 Aug 18
With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
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16 Aug 18
The proportion of young people who think it is important to go to university has declined gradually over the past five years, according to figures released by an educational charity today.
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7 Aug 18
The UK economy needs more graduates to increase productivity and innovation, according to an advocacy organisation for universities.
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24 Jul 18
A trade union leader has attacked the decision to fund pay rises for a million public sector workers from existing departmental budgets for spelling further cuts to jobs and services.
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4 Jun 18
Councils are in line to receive a total of £730m in funding to create new school places, the education secretary has announced.
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4 Jun 18
If the government is serious about improving the life chances of poorer children, it should reconsider its plans for grammar schools, says the Education Policy Institute’s Natalie Perera.
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1 Jun 18
Only one third of free schools have demonstrated an ‘innovative’ approach to teaching despite this being their purpose, according to research.
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25 May 18
The schools watchdog has failed to hit targets while suffering “constants cuts” to its budget for more than a decade, the National Audit Office has said.
13 Mar 19The education secretary has announced 39 new free schools will be set up for children with special education needs and behavioural difficulties.
25 Feb 19Impossible workloads and underfunded pay deals have created a “crisis” in teacher recruitment and retention in England, a union has warned.
19 Feb 19Without asking people to pay more, the government will have to rein in the public's expectations on what public services they can hope to get, says the IFG’s Graham Atkins.
8 Feb 19The government’s 30-hours childcare scheme is “entrenching disadvantage” by failing to include the poorest children, MPs have warned.
5 Feb 19Parents are being increasingly pressured into home-schooling leaving councils unable to ensure children are adequately educated, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
4 Feb 19Between financial controversies and more fundamental questions about sustainability, the academies sector is crying out for transparency, writes Rachel Willcox.
17 Dec 18The national deficit will increase by £12bn when the Office for National Statistics changes the way it records students loans.
17 Dec 18Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
4 Dec 18Head teachers have criticised Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman for failing to acknowledge the impact of budget cuts on schools.
23 Nov 18An attempt to improve public finances by selling off student loans could have in fact damaged them, according to a group of MPs.
28 Sep 18More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
25 Sep 18Labour would scrap academies and free schools and return control of education back to councils, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the party’s conference in Liverpool today.
31 Aug 18With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
24 Jul 18A trade union leader has attacked the decision to fund pay rises for a million public sector workers from existing departmental budgets for spelling further cuts to jobs and services.
