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...
Schools are not doing enough to challenge high-performing students to enable them to fulfil their potential, according to the education watchdog Ofsted.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Department for Education’s ‘complex and confused’ oversight regime for academies has left it reliant on whistleblowers to identify financial risks or governance problems in schools, the Public...
Academy funding must be made more transparent and new rules governing spending are needed to tackle possible conflicts of interest in the sector, the education select committee has said.
Schools could soon face a tipping point where there is no more space or money to offer extra places to pupils that need them, the Local Government Association has warned.
The decision by the coalition government to increase university tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year has contributed to a decline in more flexible forms of higher education, an analysis...
Younger primary schools pupils in Scotland’s schools are entitled to a free school lunch as of today, under a Scottish Government scheme that ministers say will remove the stigma of subsidised meals...
The performance of England’s secondary schools has stalled in the last year, with poor and inconsistent leadership hindering improvements, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said today.
Councils had to spend more than £22m covering the costs of schools converting to academy status in the last two years, even though they are moving free from local authority control and are funded...
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has warned that millions in public money could be misused after auditors found that £5.4m was given to nearly 1,000 students at alternative colleges that...
A new national database of apprenticeships and other employer-led courses and training opportunities for over 16s will be launched in England next year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has revealed.
New teacher training routes, which see student teachers learn on the job, can cost the government significantly more than traditional higher education-based routes, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
