Heavy snowfalls have forced councils across the country to deal with blocked roads, closed schools, abandoned refuse collection rounds and emergency help for rough sleepers.
The latest analysis of Scottish local government finances has shown that education and social work accounted for the bulk of council spending last financial year.
The Commissioner for Public Appointments Peter Riddell has slated the Department for Education over its controversial appointment of journalist Toby Young.
Local authorities are struggling to take a holistic view of education provision in their areas because of the high proportion of secondary schools that have converted to academies, according to...
Talks in the bitter university pensions dispute are due to resume tomorrow but the University and College Union has warned that these are likely to prove fruitless.
Reducing fees for arts and humanities degrees lower than those for science, technology, engineering and maths will create unfair disparities between what graduates will have to pay, suggests...
Strikes over proposed changes to university staff pensions are expected to affect 500,000 teaching hours over 14 days, the University and College Union has said.
Conor Ryan looks back at the thorny history of tuition fees and offers his thoughts on the latest review of post-18 education announced by the prime minister this week.
A trade union is calling for vice chancellors to be barred from attending remuneration committee meetings after 95% of the UK’s universities were found to allow vice-chancellors to go to them.
The government’s response to school teachers quitting the profession in England has been “sluggish and incoherent”, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
Toby Young’s brief tenure on the board of the Office for Students should prompt the education secretary to reflect while choosing a replacement, argues the Institute for Government’s Daniel Thornton.
The revamped version of the private finance initiative – dubbed PF2 – has been little used and has few major differences from its predecessor, the National Audit Office has found.
Councils around the country are scrambling to identify the full extent of their exposure to Carillion after Monday’s collapse of the construction and facilities management firm.
Justine Greening’s departure means the Cabinet has lost a doughty champion of social mobility, says the Sutton Trust’s Conor Ryan. Her successor Damian Hinds needs to make his name – and a big...
The Department for Education has been urged to preserve the independence of the Office for Students following the resignation of Toby Young from its board.
Most areas planned to continue to offer local authority school improvement services, despite the drift of schools out of council control under free school and academy programmes.
The New Year once again brought honours for a range of public sector leaders and professionals, including the finance directors of the NHS and the Department for Education.
A hard-core of some 130 ‘intractable’ schools has stubbornly failed to improve since 2005 despite repeated efforts, the chief inspector of schools has said.
