Efforts to improve teacher training and retention have failed to demonstrate a positive impact or value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
Scottish education secretary John Swinney faces mounting pressure – including from within his own party – to intervene over a 17% pay rise for a top college executive at a time when pay...
Universities will have to justify vice-chancellor salaries and could be fined for paying excessive amounts, as part of proposals to cut higher education costs.
Almost half of councils risk being unable to meet rising demand for secondary school places within the next five years, the Local Government Association has warned.
A national system would end the current postcode lottery that is school funding. School leaders now have the opportunity to tell the government what a fair system would look like, says Julia Harnden
The University of Manchester’s announcement in May that it was to make 171 staff redundant took many higher education watchers by surprise. Its reasons for the decision were strikingly diverse...
England’s education system needs to undergo significant improvement if it is to keep pace with the world’s best, an Education Policy Institute report has warned.
Every university in England has now committed to working with schools from 2018-19 to improve access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
Teaching unions have blasted the government’s pledge to increase school budgets by £1.3bn from efficiencies within the Department for Education as “smoke and mirrors”.
The UK’s productivity problem starts with early years education as failures at this stage have repercussions throughout people’s lives, the CIPFA conference heard.
Concern about public sector pay limits has focused on NHS and emergency service workers. But pay for more than a million school and council workers has been kept down for longer and it’s time...
The level of savings the government expects schools to make are unrealistic and putting teaching standards at risk, a CIPFA academies conference has heard.
