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2 Sep 99
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has announced two new business-oriented appointments to the Audit Commission.
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26 Aug 99
Teachers' unions in Scotland are set to reject a pay offer worth nearly 15% over three years.
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12 Aug 99
In another age, there were people known as Kremlinologists. These experts would be wheeled out on British television and radio to discuss the significance of every minor change in personnel made to...
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22 Jul 99
Liverpool's local education authority is being pushed into privatising most of its services without being allowed to consider the alternatives, ministers were told this week.
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22 Jul 99
A central government crackdown that will allow greater ministerial intervention into failing schools, councils and police authorities was formally outlined this week.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to offer financial incentives to keep 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training as part of a package to stem 'a lost generation' of youngsters.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to fund its proposed expansion of further education through more use of the Private Finance Initiative in the sixth-form sector, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alan Milburn said...
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17 Jun 99
Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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17 Jun 99
They were trumpeted as the end of an iniquitous internal market in health.
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10 Jun 99
CIPFA is about to announce major changes to its professional qualification.
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10 Jun 99
Training and Enterprise Councils face abolition in their present form, under government proposals to be published at the end of the month.
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3 Jun 99
Local Education Authorities found themselves in the government's sights again this week when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped up the attack on spending on schools.
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27 May 99
Smokers and homeless people are being targeted as part of a drive to improve the health of some of the poorest areas in England.
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27 May 99
The government has admitted that half this year's funding increase for education will be swallowed up by the teachers' pay rise, leaving much less than expected for other improvements.
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20 May 99
Ministers announced this week that they are looking for 40 more councils to apply for Beacon status.
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20 May 99
The Improvement and Development Agency is to lead the fightback against the government's privatisation agenda for schools by creating its own 'hit squads' for local education authorities.
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20 May 99
Housing may be ignored by Labour as the government sets spending targets for a second term in office, prospective mayor of London Ken Livingstone warned this week.
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20 May 99
Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
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20 May 99
Local authorities in the north, the Midlands and Scotland will now be expected to absorb 20,000 or more refugees from the Kosovo war, it was revealed this week.
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13 May 99
A strong impetus has been given to private sector management of state schools by publication of a government list of selected consultancies that will be permitted to bid for services mismanaged by...
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29 Apr 99
On May 6, the local council elections in England, Wales and Scotland will be an important test of the state of the parties.
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15 Apr 99
The first 21 projects in the government's £80m Sure Start programme have been given the green light and are expected to provide extra services to 18,000 disadvantaged children four years old and...
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15 Apr 99
Serious financial irregularities at a further education college in Cheshire could be occurring in colleges across the country, the National Audit Office warned this week.
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8 Apr 99
The government is pressing ahead with funding changes for supported and sheltered housing despite objections from housing associations.
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8 Apr 99
The government has moved to defuse the row with the teaching unions over its plans to reform teachers' pay.
2 Sep 99Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has announced two new business-oriented appointments to the Audit Commission.
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