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3 Apr 17
Download our supplement on the implications of Brexit for public finance
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3 Apr 17
Leaving the EU has major consequences for higher education. The long–term challenges are the most serious
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3 Apr 17
Schools across England will receive £2.4bn towards extra places and building upgrades, education secretary Justine Greening has announced today.
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3 Apr 17
Facts and figures from the April edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from CIPFA’s Performance Tracker report and whether we’ve really had enough of experts
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29 Mar 17
The government’s cost-saving plans for schools have been slammed as “dangerous” to education standards, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
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23 Mar 17
Technical levels offer a new way into vocational training. Will they increase opportunities or will straying from the academic path remain too risky?
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22 Mar 17
Some schools in England could be facing a 7% funding cut after 2020 following the roll out of the revised national funding formula, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
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17 Mar 17
The planned overhaul of education funding will do little to help disadvantaged pupils who live in deprived areas, education charities have warned.
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14 Mar 17
Constant upheaval and changes of direction in government policy are hugely costly in both human and economic terms, the Institute for Government warns in a paper published today.
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13 Mar 17
Future squeezes on public finances could lead to a drop in the number of well-qualified people entering teaching and health professions, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned.
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8 Mar 17
The government has pledged to create 110 new free schools, which have the potential to become grammars.
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2 Mar 17
Disadvantaged children in England are significantly less likely to gain a place at the country’s top performing comprehensive schools, the Sutton Trust has found.
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28 Feb 17
Wales must continue to reform its national curriculum and raise the standard of teaching to improve the quality of its school system, an OECD assessment has found.
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28 Feb 17
There is not enough evidence to support the expansion of multi-academy trusts as part of the government’s aim for all schools to become academies, the education select committee has concluded.
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28 Feb 17
Education spending by Scottish local authorities increased by 2.7% in real terms last year in spite of persistent teacher shortages and claims of under-resourcing, according to official annual...
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27 Feb 17
Funding for pupils aged 16 to 18 in England has been “continually squeezed”, despite increases in education spending across three decades, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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22 Feb 17
It would cost the government at least £6.7bn to bring the school estate in England up to a satisfactory standard, a review by the National Audit Office has highlighted.
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20 Feb 17
Public sector staff who move from permanent roles to agency work mainly do so due to concerns over insufficient resources and unmanageable workloads rather than in an effort to increase pay, a review...
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10 Feb 17
A wall collapse last year at an Edinburgh primary school built under the controversial Private Finance Initiative funding system was not the fault of PFI, an independent report has concluded.
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10 Feb 17
Councils in England and Wales have called on the government to make it easier for high-performing maintained schools to sponsor struggling academies.
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3 Feb 17
Councils are bidding for powers to require academies to admit challenging and difficult children, who might have been excluded from other schools.
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27 Jan 17
A report that the government has clawed back £384m of funding for schools amid a ‘cash crisis’ in education has sparked criticism from teaching unions.
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27 Jan 17
The government should not reconsider its oft-criticised commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, the former prime minister told a committee yesterday.
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25 Jan 17
Holyrood's plan to remove education funding from local authorities ramps up financial risk and might not improve student outcomes. A transitional period would be helpful
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16 Jan 17
Ninety eight per cent of schools in England face a real-terms reduction in funding per pupil under the government’s proposed National Funding Formula, according to analysis published today by...