The funding and international reputation of Scotland’s universities is being damaged by the UK coalition government’s ‘nasty’ and ‘xenophobic’ immigration policies, Scottish Education Secretary...
Increasing demands are being made of the fledgling Education Funding Agency, but there are questions over its capacity to absorb new responsibilities and how its performance will be monitored,...
People will only be able to be appointed as school governors if they have appropriate abilities and experience, such as financial skills, under proposed amendments to the school governance...
Local authorities in England are to share in an additional £2.35bn in capital funding over three years to help them create the extra school places that will be needed by 2017, Education Secretary...
Ministers should consider setting out multi-year funding plans for children’s centres as part of a long-term plan for early years education, according to the Commons education committee.
England’s education system is improving but is marred by significant regional differences, chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw said today as he published his second annual report
The costs of the government’s controversial free schools programme are increasing and the Department for Education needs to exert more control over funding, the National Audit Office has said today.
Children who are eligible for free school meals are ‘disproportionately unlikely’ to be admitted to grammar schools in the parts of the country where they operate, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
The further education sector needs to learn from other public services how to tackle poor performance and improve quality, according to a Skills Commission report
Higher education in England needs strong and coherent regulation as the sector moves in a more diverse and increasingly market-driven direction, an expert commission has said.
The Welsh government has struck a deal with two opposition parties to reform social care provision and increase school spending, First Minister Carwyn Jones has revealed.
Continuing to ringfence NHS and schools spending is placing ‘the full burden of financial stringency’ on other Whitehall departments and could lead to waste in protected areas, the Treasury select...
The ‘friends and family test’ used to judge the quality of NHS hospitals is to expanded to other public services, including job centres and further education colleges, Cabinet Office minister Francis...
Schools minister David Laws has revealed that the government is considering making long-term capital allocations to councils to provide new school places, in a bid to tackle what he called the ‘...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said he would support continuing to ring-fence spending on both the NHS and schools over the five years to the end of the next parliament in 2020.
The National Union of Teachers has launched a campaign highlighting what it calls the ‘crisis’ in school place provision and calling for local government to be given powers to open new schools.
Schools in Wales could potentially save £9m a year if the level of teacher absences could be reduced to the level in England, a report by the Wales Audit Office has found
School performance in England has experienced a rapid improvement, with 600,000 more children now receiving an education judged as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, Ofsted said today.
The two largest teaching unions are to hold one-day strikes next month as their dispute with the government over changes to pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs escalates.
Nearly one-third of public sector workers are considering returning to work part-time after their retirement due to concerns over how they will be able to cope financially.
