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23 Sep 14
Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
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22 Sep 14
Councils should be allowed to establish and run academies, the Policy Exchange think-tank has recommended as it warned that a fifth of primary schools ‘could be set to fail’.
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22 Sep 14
Northern cities are being promised major new infrastructure investment to help rebalance their economies. So will the chancellor make good on his warm words of support for the One North initiative...
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17 Sep 14
Public sector employment fell by a further 11,000 to 5.39 million in the second quarter of 2014 to hit the lowest level recorded since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics has...
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8 Sep 14
The government must launch a national campaign to improve adult literacy and numeracy, which are at ‘alarmingly low’ levels and undermining the UK’s economic performance, MPs said today.
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3 Sep 14
Complaints about schools admissions appeals to the Local Government Ombudsman have fallen by half over the past four years, the watchdog has reported.
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2 Sep 14
The government is getting better value for the £7bn spent each year on educating 16- to 18-year-olds but is unclear about exactly how this is being achieved, the National Audit Office has said.
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2 Sep 14
Free lunches are now available to all children in the first three years of school in England at the start of the new school term.
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1 Sep 14
The academy chain where David Hoare, the new head of Ofsted, has been a trustee since January has been adjudged to not be performing well enough by inspectors at the watchdog.
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29 Aug 14
The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
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27 Aug 14
Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
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20 Aug 14
The policy to raise the compulsory participation age in education and training to 18 next year lacks the legal underpinning it needs to be a success, the Work Foundation has warned.
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19 Aug 14
The government's flagship free school meals policy faces significant underfunding after it has emerged that nearly half of all local authorities do not have enough money to bring their school...
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18 Aug 14
A programme to support troubled families has been expanded to help vulnerable younger children get a better start in life, the government announced today.
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13 Aug 14
Two education trade unions have joined an initiative to develop new school performance league tables in a bid to increase the range of information available to parents.
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11 Aug 14
Satisfaction levels for students studying at UK universities and colleges has hit a 10-year high, with 86% of those polled saying they were satisfied overall with their course.
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8 Aug 14
Councils are to gain powers to withdraw funds from early-years education providers who teach creationism or have links to extremist organisations.
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7 Aug 14
The government’s controversial decision in 2011 to increase tuition fees had little impact on the number of young people becoming full-time undergraduates, Universities UK has said.
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6 Aug 14
Free schools in low-income areas are failing to serve their neediest children, the first analysis of the schools’ social composition has found.
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31 Jul 14
A trustee of a chain of academy schools has been appointed as the new chair of Ofsted by education secretary Nicky Morgan in her first major appointment since taking up the post earlier this month.
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24 Jul 14
There has been a ‘striking’ change in the way universities are spending money in order to support disadvantaged students, the Office for Fair Access said today as it published access agreements for...
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21 Jul 14
The government persistently miscalculates how much it will lose when it makes students loans, a problem that threatens the long-term viability of the model, MPs have warned.
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17 Jul 14
Sixty-nine local authorities are to receive extra school funding from the Department for Education for the next academic year, schools minister David Laws has confirmed.
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16 Jul 14
A think-tank has called on the government to provide parents who work at least 20 hours a week with up to 25 hours of free early education for their pre-school children.
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15 Jul 14
Schools in England are making good use of their pupil premium funding to successfully boost the attainment of disadvantaged students, Ofsted said today.
23 Sep 14Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
22 Sep 14Councils should be allowed to establish and run academies, the Policy Exchange think-tank has recommended as it warned that a fifth of primary schools ‘could be set to fail’.
22 Sep 14Northern cities are being promised major new infrastructure investment to help rebalance their economies. So will the chancellor make good on his warm words of support for the One North initiative...
29 Aug 14The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
27 Aug 14Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
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