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5 Jul 17
The poorest English graduates have the world’s highest student debt, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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5 Jul 17
The government has dropped the controversial Conservative manifesto commitment to scrap free school meals for infants.
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29 Jun 17
The level of savings the government expects schools to make are unrealistic and putting teaching standards at risk, a CIPFA academies conference has heard.
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23 Jun 17
Caps on public sector pay have driven an increase in teacher vacancies, the Association of Schools and College Leaders has claimed.
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23 Jun 17
Social divisions run deep. Pouring money into poor areas does not work so councils are trying radical new approaches
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16 Jun 17
Scottish education secretary John Swinney has announced a radical shake-up of schools governance and support.
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6 Jun 17
The Liberal Democrats have announced a £17bn infrastructure fund to repair and restore schools and hospitals across England.
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2 Jun 17
The schools’ national funding formula is designed to be equitable but can such radical changes succeed alongside deep spending cuts?
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1 Jun 17
Conservative and Liberal Democrat plans would mean a real-terms freeze for education funding per pupil for 16 to 18 year olds, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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30 May 17
Conservative school spending plans would result in a real terms cut while Labour would increase real terms expenditure, experts have concluded.
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25 May 17
The Welsh Government could do more to ensure value for money for its £1.5bn school modernisation programme, a Welsh Audit Office report has concluded.
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25 May 17
Conservative plans to provide free breakfast for every primary school pupil have been undercosted by millions, the Education Datalab think-tank has warned.
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22 May 17
Labour has promised to write off the student fees of any university starters this autumn as part of its bid to lift £38bn worth of debt from student’s shoulders.
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14 May 17
Teaching unions have called on every candidate in the general election to pledge to address the “funding crisis” which they claim will costs schools £3bn a year by 2020.
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10 May 17
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have today separately announced multibillion pound election funding plans to invest in schools in England.
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9 May 17
Plans to provide free school meals for all primary pupils would cost £950m and deliver limited benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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4 May 17
Senior Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to pull the plug on major changes to school funding before the snap election, a newspaper has reported.
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3 May 17
Growing skills through apprenticeships is now mandatory, with large public sector bodies having to enrol minimum numbers and pay a training levy. Will this reap rewards or cost the earth?
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27 Apr 17
The UK should scale up its overseas aid to the “shamefully underfunded” education sector, British MPs have urged the country’s aid chief.
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26 Apr 17
School spending is set to fall more steeply in real terms than at any time since the 1970s if the current government’s spending plans remain unchanged, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has said.
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20 Apr 17
As the general election campaign gets going, politicians must not duck the issue of serious pressures in the public sector
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13 Apr 17
More than 70 schools across Scotland have been found to be suffering similar defects to those that closed 17 Private Finance Initiative schools in Edinburgh last year.
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12 Apr 17
Nearly one in three headteachers are using cash from the pupil premium to plug funding gaps, according to research by the Sutton Trust.
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11 Apr 17
Early years childcare services will receive an additional £50m in capital grants, the government has announced today.
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10 Apr 17
Teaching unions have urged the government to “sit up and listen” on education funding, after a new survey revealed half of schools have turned to parents for financial support.