Greater competition between universities and colleges will ensure students are given a fair return for higher fees, ministers said yesterday as they published the higher education white paper.
Head teachers have reacted angrily to Education Secretary Michael Gove’s suggestion that they have a ‘moral duty’ to keep schools open during next week’s strike action.
Failures by the University of Wales to carry out financial and legal due diligence on overseas partner institutions have damaged the reputation of the country’s higher education, the Welsh education...
The government will press ahead with its public sector pension reforms even if its fails to reach agreement with the Trades Union Congress, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has told Public...
Vocational training provided outside schools for children at risk of exclusion is not properly inspected or regulated, education watchdog Ofsted has said.
Two hundred primary schools in England are to be taken out of local authority control and converted into academies in 2012/13, the education secretary announced today.
More than 650,000 public sector workers could take part in co-ordinated industrial action over pensions at the end of the month after a third union confirmed strike plans today
Teachers across England and Wales are to strike at the end of the month after backing plans to take industrial action over proposed changes to public sector pensions.
Grants for universities that work with employers to boost economic growth are being continued, it was announced today. The Higher Education Funding Council for England will allocate £600m between...
The steep rise in student tuition fees will have a negative impact on the economic activity of UK university towns and cities, according to a report published today
More than 20 local authorities are taking legal action against the government, claiming it has cut too much from their funding for services transferred to academy schools.
England’s 670 private colleges should be regulated in the same way as public universities to ensure minimum standards and allow them to bid for public funds, according to a think-tank.
Talk of shared services is nothing new, but now it is increasingly turning into action as public bodies seek to find savings without harming services. While a few pioneers are making headlines,...
The Scottish election campaign enters its final days with party leaders refusing to be drawn on claims that 25,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs and others suffer real-terms pay cuts of...