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9 May 17
Plans to provide free school meals for all primary pupils would cost £950m and deliver limited benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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4 May 17
Senior Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to pull the plug on major changes to school funding before the snap election, a newspaper has reported.
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13 Apr 17
More than 70 schools across Scotland have been found to be suffering similar defects to those that closed 17 Private Finance Initiative schools in Edinburgh last year.
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10 Apr 17
Teaching unions have urged the government to “sit up and listen” on education funding, after a new survey revealed half of schools have turned to parents for financial support.
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3 Apr 17
Schools across England will receive £2.4bn towards extra places and building upgrades, education secretary Justine Greening has announced today.
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19 Oct 16
The small team of civil servants responsible for performance managing academies and free schools cannot do so effectively and could be putting children’s education at risk, the Local Government...
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4 Oct 16
The government has launched a £60m programme that will work with local authorities and schools to improve social mobility, initially focused on six “coldspots” across the country
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27 Sep 16
Labour has launched a childcare taskforce that will consider new policy proposals to provide affordable, high-quality childcare fit for the 21st century in order to help parents get into work.
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26 Sep 16
Jeremy Corbyn is to launch a national campaign against the government’s plans to expand the use of grammar schools after he was re-elected as Labour’s leader at the party’s conference on Saturday.
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20 Sep 16
The BRICS group is thriving despite some recent economic turbulence. It offers members a shared policy platform and cross-continental connections
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30 Apr 15
Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
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31 Mar 15
Senior figures in the academy sector have warned that the government’s free school programme could undermine plans to improve existing institutions.
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27 Mar 15
Day-to-day spending on schools has been ‘remarkably’ well protected under the coalition government, but regardless of who wins the next election cuts of 7% or more are possible, the...
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3 Mar 15
Schools are not doing enough to challenge high-performing students to enable them to fulfil their potential, according to the education watchdog Ofsted.
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27 Feb 15
Ed Miliband has announced that a future Labour government would cut university fees in England to £6,000 from autumn 2016, funding it with a reduction in pension tax relief for top earners.
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20 Feb 15
Labour has been urged to ‘come clean’ on the party’s plans for the funding of higher education following speculation that it would go into May’s general election proposing to cut the maximum that can...
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18 Feb 15
The price of a university degree is prompting young people to look at alternative career routes. Apprentices learn on the job, as well as in the classroom, while being paid. How should public sector...
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16 Feb 15
A rift between ministers and councils over the Scottish Government’s pledge to maintain pupil-teacher ratios has widened, after the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it was considering a...
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13 Feb 15
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
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12 Feb 15
Public services spend almost £17bn a year on addressing the impact of a host of social problems affecting young people, a study by the Early Intervention Foundation has found.
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11 Feb 15
A future Labour government would introduce a tax dodging Bill that would see stronger independent scrutiny of the UK tax system and make country-by-country reporting information publicly available.
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9 Feb 15
The government has announced a £6bn expansion of its Priority School Building Programme, with 277 schools set to be refurbished over the next three years.
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6 Feb 15
Teaching unions have criticised government plans to reduce workloads, saying staff would be ‘bitterly disappointed’.
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2 Feb 15
Over 3,300 ‘coasting’ schools could be taken over by academy chains or have their head teachers replaced if they do not improve, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today.
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2 Feb 15
Taxpayers are losing more than £800m a year because of the ‘bums on seats’ system of funding post-16 education, the Local Government Association has warned.
9 May 17Plans to provide free school meals for all primary pupils would cost £950m and deliver limited benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
4 May 17Senior Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to pull the plug on major changes to school funding before the snap election, a newspaper has reported.
13 Apr 17More than 70 schools across Scotland have been found to be suffering similar defects to those that closed 17 Private Finance Initiative schools in Edinburgh last year.
10 Apr 17Teaching unions have urged the government to “sit up and listen” on education funding, after a new survey revealed half of schools have turned to parents for financial support.
3 Apr 17Schools across England will receive £2.4bn towards extra places and building upgrades, education secretary Justine Greening has announced today.
19 Oct 16The small team of civil servants responsible for performance managing academies and free schools cannot do so effectively and could be putting children’s education at risk, the Local Government...
4 Oct 16The government has launched a £60m programme that will work with local authorities and schools to improve social mobility, initially focused on six “coldspots” across the country
27 Sep 16Labour has launched a childcare taskforce that will consider new policy proposals to provide affordable, high-quality childcare fit for the 21st century in order to help parents get into work.
26 Sep 16Jeremy Corbyn is to launch a national campaign against the government’s plans to expand the use of grammar schools after he was re-elected as Labour’s leader at the party’s conference on Saturday.
20 Sep 16The BRICS group is thriving despite some recent economic turbulence. It offers members a shared policy platform and cross-continental connections
30 Apr 15Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
31 Mar 15Senior figures in the academy sector have warned that the government’s free school programme could undermine plans to improve existing institutions.
27 Mar 15Day-to-day spending on schools has been ‘remarkably’ well protected under the coalition government, but regardless of who wins the next election cuts of 7% or more are possible, the...
3 Mar 15Schools are not doing enough to challenge high-performing students to enable them to fulfil their potential, according to the education watchdog Ofsted.
18 Feb 15The price of a university degree is prompting young people to look at alternative career routes. Apprentices learn on the job, as well as in the classroom, while being paid. How should public sector...
12 Feb 15Public services spend almost £17bn a year on addressing the impact of a host of social problems affecting young people, a study by the Early Intervention Foundation has found.
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