An independent review has strongly criticised the government for ignoring a looming crisis over the modernisation of further education colleges in England.
Reports of the problems facing the Building Schools for the Future scheme have been exaggerated. But successful partnering strategies are vital to help the programme thrive in a harsh financial...
With the graduate job market in deep recession, students can ill-afford another rise in top-up fees. But cash-strapped universities say it’s the only way to maintain world-class standards. Can the...
The Budget included measures to overcome an impending crisis in further education, announcing £250m to fund an additional 54,000 sixth form and further education places
English towns and cities face a far larger than predicted demand for school classes, with London expecting a shortfall of 18,000 places. So should government or education authorities bear the costs...
A cash-strapped government quango is poised to pay private consultants more than £400,000 to rescue part of its beleaguered college rebuilding programme
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has acknowledged the critical shortage of primary school places, saying officials are looking at ways of remedying the situation
The Learning and Skills Council is being abolished after a series of high-profile disasters, the most damaging of which - the Building Colleges for the Future programme - has left a £5.7bn deficit
Almost a third of schools are failing to arrange alternative education for excluded pupils within the six days now required by law, an Ofsted report has found
Councils and teachers have dismissed claims by the Conservatives that some local authority areas in England are failing to enter pupils for separate science GCSEs
About a third of further education colleges face serious financial problems after last year’s collapse of a flagship rebuilding programme, finance directors were warned this week
Details have been announced for a £4bn funding framework to provide academy schools in areas in England not yet running a Building Schools for the Future scheme
The Comprehensive Performance Assessment regime came to an end on a high this week, with record numbers of councils achieving the top four-star rating.
Government grants for universities will rise by 4.1% this year to almost £8bn, with the highest increases aimed at those institutions providing world-leading research.
The banks have been pulling out of the Private Finance Initiative and the contractors are struggling. As a scheme designed to transfer public sector risk becomes a growing liability, frantic efforts...
Schools minister Jim Knight has defended the Building Schools for the Future programme after the National Audit Office highlighted rising costs and delays
