Ministers are considering ‘strengthening’ the inspection regime for local authority adoption services in an attempt to reverse a recent decline in family placements.
Proposals to restrict entry for overseas university students will cost the UK economy billions of pounds, and all in ‘pursuit of artificial immigration targets’, according to a leading think-tank.
A range of future funding options for Scottish universities have been announced by ministers, but tuition fees for Scottish students ‘remain off the table’.
The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies has backed the government's plans to reform the university tuition fees system, but added that concessions to poorer students have built some perverse...
The government has made further concessions on student fees, promising more help for part-time students and to raise the repayment threshold every year.
MPs have issued a damning indictment of the Student Loans Company, describing the body’s performance in administering grants and loans last year as ‘completely unacceptable’.
Head teachers have called for inspections to better recognise the quality of school leadership, after regulator Ofsted identified a link between well-led schools and the quality of their teaching
There is a 'strong case' for the maximum pay in public bodies to be linked to that of the lowest earners, the interim report on public sector pay said today
Councils in London have published figures today showing that current proposals for the pupil premium for deprived children could make school funding less fair
The higher education sector has 'strong cash balances and healthy levels of reserves' as it moves into a period of 'unprecedented difficulty', university leaders were told this morning