The government faces a 'significant obstacle' to its aim of achieving a world-class education system because too many young people are still being failed by poor schools.
Public bodies have given the thumbs-up to the government's plan to merge the accounting profession's watchdogs into one 'super-regulator' following a year-long review of the sector.
Local government employers this week attempted to play down the impending 'crisis' caused by rising numbers of teachers seeking to leave the profession.
Westminster City Council warned that it was on a 'collision course' with the Office for National Statistics this week as the row over census data escalated with the publication of the final local...
Child protection agencies have joined forces to try to stop vulnerable children slipping through the net as Lord Laming's damning report on the Victoria Climbié case was published.
A decade-long catalogue of failures by the Lord Chancellor's Department and a private contractor has turned what should have been a straightforward IT scheme into arguably 'the shoddiest Private...
Gordon Brown's public sector spending plans were dealt a potential blow this week when it was revealed that the chancellor had exceeded his £20bn annual borrowing forecasts with three months left of...
The government is coming under increasing pressure to launch a wide-ranging review of the Private Finance Initiative, following the publication of last week's critical Audit Commission report into...
Education Secretary Charles Clarke's plan for the reform of higher education will create a two-tier system that constrains the very people the government intended to benefit the most, according to...
The finance director who says he was sacked by St George's Healthcare NHS Trust in London for whistle-blowing has lost his first attempt to win his job back.
NHS trusts will get the double boost of fewer inspections from Royal Colleges and an increase in consultant numbers under a groundbreaking deal announced this week.
As the Fire Brigades Union heads towards a resumption of its strike programme, Prime Minister Tony Blair has maintained his tough stance, saying the stoppages are 'wrong, dangerous and unjustified'.
The Private Finance Initiative offers few benefits to education, and high-performing councils should be given the freedom to explore other methods of procurement, the Audit Commission concluded in a...
Voluntary organisations have slammed the troubled Criminal Records Bureau for providing a poor service. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said its members had 'an extreme lack of...
Local government leaders and ministers will shortly agree the terms of reference for the long-awaited balance of funding review, allowing work finally to get under way.
The government should resist the temptation to introduce any further structural changes or new policies to the NHS, according to an influential Leftwing think-tank.
Education personnel were the biggest public sector beneficiaries of the New Year's honours list, but other notable achievers came from local government, health and the public sciences.
Local government leaders have gone on the offensive over this year's finance settlement amid fears that increases in education funding could mean other services are starved of cash.
One in six teachers say they will not be in the classroom in five years' time because of excessive workloads and too many targets, research has revealed.
The pressures involved in recruiting and retaining Britain's best teachers are already plentiful, but UK education officials now face stiff competition from a most unlikely source the US's deprived...
