Chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead has dismissed calls from a teachers' union leader for an end to the 'Spanish Inquisition' of schools' inspections.
Lack of autonomy in the classroom and increasing bureaucracy are contributing to soaring stress levels among teachers, with record numbers wanting to leave the profession, according to a report from...
The Local Government Association commission examining the school year has heard that redistributing holidays more evenly and having an increased number of shorter terms could cut absence levels among...
The government looks set to provoke a row with a powerful group of doctors in the run-up to the next General Election by suggesting hospital consultants' private practices should be reined in.
The quality of Welsh council services varies widely and falls below that of their English counterparts in many areas, the Audit Commission said this week.
Employment minister Margaret Hodge has revealed that the government is to set up four pilot schemes to examine ways of getting ill and disabled people off sickness benefits and back into work.
The expanded list of companies approved to supply services to failing local education authorities has been criticised by the Local Government Association and the National Union of Teachers.
The Higher Education Funding Councils are joining forces with universities' representatives to set up an equal opportunities action group to combat racial and sexual discrimination.
Most Whitehall departments have delivered on the myriad targets set out in the Public Service Agreements, despite the fact that Treasury Chief secretary Andrew Smith believed them to be too...
Leaders of teaching unions voiced their scepticism about proposals to abandon the three-term school year at a hearing of the commission set up to examine the issue.
Politics is a cyclical game. Representatives of the party in power at Westminster are always liable to be told to get on their bikes at mid-term local elections.
It is a rare Easter in Ireland when the commemoration of the 1916 Rising is overshadowed. But this year, a more modern drama swamped the historical pageants.
More than three-quarters of housing benefit claims made by people living in sheltered and supported accommodation were not reviewed by councils as required, in the run-up to a new funding system.
The NHS should become a public corporation at arm's length from government, with its own board and operational freedom, according to a new commission of independent experts.
Just as the NHS is becoming accustomed to the government's burgeoning reform demands, the National Audit Office decides to roll up its sleeves and join the modernisation melee.
Labour reaffirmed its faith in the Private Finance Initiative this week when local government minister Hilary Armstrong unveiled 14 new schemes, totalling £300m.
The government has opened the multi-million pound schools' IT market to a wider range of private companies, including Internet developers and film-makers, to try to increase competition and raise...
London Transport's chief executive has admitted to MPs that London Underground would still face a 'funding gap' if the proposed £8bn public-private partnership went ahead.
The Ministry of Defence claimed this week it was on target to meet its Public Service Agreement of delivering £700m worth of receipts by 2002 from the sale of its surplus assets.
Scotland's largest public-private partnership scheme to rebuild Glasgow's secondary schools would not have been affordable without additional government funding, the city's finance director told...
