The government’s reforms to public sector pensions will reduce the average value of an individual’s scheme by more than a third, an independent assessment by the Pensions Policy Institute has...
Procedures for delivering children’s care services are loaded in favour of local authority provision and are failing vulnerable Scottish youngsters, an alliance of third and private sector providers...
Alan Milburn, the government’s independent reviewer on social mobility and child poverty, has criticised the coalition’s decision to abolish the Education Maintenance Allowance.
Many employees in local government and the NHS could be being paid in a way that can lead to tax avoidance, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
Secondary schools in England are to receive additional funding to help pupils who have fallen behind in English and maths at primary school, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today.
The two largest teaching unions in England and Wales are set to take industrial action later this month in response to what they say are attacks on the profession by the government.
Members of the National Union of Teachers have voted to take strike action over what the union claims has been an ‘onslaught of attacks on the teaching profession’ by the government. The union will...
The government has been warned today that it is ‘missing a major trick’ by devolving economic powers to cities only rather than offering them to wider local government.
The coalition partners don’t agree on much. And the political perils of shrinking the state mean that small is no longer quite so beautiful, argues Philip Johnston
Ministers have been urged to tackle youth unemployment after latest figures revealed that almost 1 million young people are not in education, employment or training.
There is no evidence that allowing schools to be run for a profit would boost education standards in England, the Institute for Public Policy Research think-tank said today.
The £1.25bn of funding being channelled through the pupil premium is not necessarily going to be well spent, both the Sutton Trust education charity and Ofsted have warned.