Education

  • Public Finance
    17 Nov 05
    Further education has been a 'forgotten middle child'. But now Sir Andrew Foster's wide-ranging review could give the £5bn sector a new mission to get the nation ready for work. Joseph McHugh asks...
  • Public Finance
    10 Nov 05
    Choosing spending priorities involves some tough, painful and invariably unpopular decisions. Harrow decided to put its residents in the hot seat and invigorate democracy in the process. Maria McHale...
  • Public Finance
    10 Nov 05
    Rhodri Morgan is every bit as evangelical as Tony Blair when it comes to improving public services. But Wales is taking a very different route from Westminster. Steve Davies reports on public sector...
  • Public Finance
    10 Nov 05
    Local government leaders have welcomed their new responsibility to ensure there is sufficient childcare to meet the needs of working families - but warned that it needs to be backed up with adequate...
  • Public Finance
    10 Nov 05
    Primary schools are using covert selection methods to weed out the most disadvantaged pupils, according to the director of the Confederation of Education and Children's Services Managers.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    The chief schools adjudicator has warned local authorities not to use adjudications to force schools to change their admissions criteria.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Scotland and England are increasingly diverging in key policy issues, a leading academic told a CIPFA seminar in Edinburgh on November 2.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    MPs have condemned as 'entirely unacceptable' the failure by ministers to ensure that the costs of future outbreaks of animal diseases such as foot and mouth are borne by industry instead of...
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    No single measure of public sector productivity will ever capture the complex relationship between investment in services and the results achieved, the Office for National Statistics has admitted.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Trusts are passing their responsibility for free health care to means-testing social services departments
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Primary care trusts will continue to play a 'central role' in local health economies, the minister for NHS delivery Lord Warner insisted this week.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Scottish Conservative deputy leader Annabel Goldie looked set to inherit the top job this week after the sudden resignation of David McLetchie, who has been at the centre of a long-running row over...
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Senior police officers this week hit out at criticisms from a Right-wing think-tank over the calibre of new recruits to the force.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Councils will be able to track more accurately their success at reviving their local economies after a new set of performance indicators were launched this week.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    No agreement emerged from the first meeting aimed at resolving the dispute between employers, unions and the government over the Local Government Pension Scheme.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    Permanent secretaries' pay will be linked to their success in meeting civil service diversity targets, Cabinet Office minister John Hutton announced this week.
  • Public Finance
    3 Nov 05
    The proposed integration of CIPFA and the ICAEW fell by the tiniest of margins last week. Steve Freer examines what we can all learn from the experience
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    The London Borough of Merton was dreading the new-look CPA, which appeared to threaten all the improvements it had made. But it was pleasantly surprised when the final changes were revealed
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    Water companies' services are almost perfect, says the regulator. But with almost 4,000 million litres of water wasted through burst pipes and leakages every day, David Meilton begs to differ
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    Councils could be forced to delve into billions of pounds of vital cash reserves following a tough 2006/07 finance settlement, ministers have warned town hall officials.
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    Sixty-six MPs have signed a parliamentary motion urging Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to extend last week's surprise deal on unfunded public sector pensions to local government.
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    More than 250,000 children share a bedroom with their parents because of chronic overcrowding, the housing charity Shelter claimed this week.
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    The civil service should be replaced by a new organisation embracing all those involved in the management of the public sector, former top civil servant Sir Michael Bichard has suggested.
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    Education experts fear white paper proposals will increase inequality and cause admissions chaos
  • Public Finance
    27 Oct 05
    Ofsted, the education watchdog, was this week accused of a puritanical attitude towards its staff after it emerged that managers could cut costs by docking employees' pay if they take emergency leave...

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