The schools watchdog has failed to hit targets while suffering “constants cuts” to its budget for more than a decade, the National Audit Office has said.
Early years providers in England are struggling to provide the promised 30 hours of free child care because of “insufficient” funding, a survey has found.
The education minister has come under fire from both sides of the Commons for failing to confirm schools will not see cuts as a result of the new funding formula.
A third of academy leaders believe autonomy from local government has made no difference, while almost one in five think its effect has been negative, according to a survey released today.
The latest analysis of Scottish local government finances has shown that education and social work accounted for the bulk of council spending last financial year.
Most areas planned to continue to offer local authority school improvement services, despite the drift of schools out of council control under free school and academy programmes.
The level of savings the government expects schools to make are unrealistic and putting teaching standards at risk, a CIPFA academies conference has heard.
Conservative plans to provide free breakfast for every primary school pupil have been undercosted by millions, the Education Datalab think-tank has warned.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
