Scotland’s universities would take 40 years at their current rate of progress to widen access to the levels demanded by ministers in return for increased funding, according to the National Union of...
Up to £126m is being made available to businesses and charities in England that succeed in getting thousands of jobless youngsters back into education or training.
Head teachers have welcomed the publication of spending data for academies but called for it to be made comparable with funding for maintained schools.
Scotland’s government has urged UK Treasury ministers to plough back some of a multi-billion pound departmental underspend into capital projects capable of boosting jobs and growth in the Scottish...
Competition between exam boards in England creates ‘significant pressure’ to lower GCSE and A-level standards, the Commons education select committee said today.
A cross-government approach is needed to tackle the lower literacy standards achieved by boys and to close the ‘reading gender gap’, MPs and peers said today.
The head of the Office for Fair Access has said the higher education watchdog needs evidence of which ways of encouraging poorer students to apply for and stay on at university are most successful.
Almost two-thirds of school bursars and business managers believe their pay is too low for the responsibility they carry, according to a survey by the National Association of Head Teachers.
Business Secretary Vince Cable today launched 4,230 new ‘Higher Apprenticeships’ to fill skill gaps in sectors such as accountancy, the law and social care.
Holyrood will debate on Thursday why youth unemployment in Scotland is persistently above the UK rate, amid Labour claims that one of the main programmes to redress the problem is a ‘con’.
As economic crisis turns to political crisis across Europe, what are the lessons for local democracy here? The May 3 elections sent out some strong messages on mayors, majorities and political...
The two largest teaching unions in England and Wales have made a ‘historic agreement’ to work together to protect teachers’ pay and conditions and defend education.
Teachers will have to wait months longer than other public sector workers before finding out if they are to move to localised pay, it has been revealed.
The government has been ‘inundated’ with more than 2,000 applications from schools to run summer schools funded by £50m of the pupil premium programme, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Plans to monitor the spending of public money in academy schools are weak and might not be able to ensure accountability, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
The abolition of the Audit Commission will eventually lead to councils appointing their own auditors. Richard Johnstone looks at the lessons for audit from foundation trusts and academy schools