Education

  • Public Finance
    28 Feb 02
    The Local Government Association and ministers are to agree a set of shared priorities for service delivery that will act as a 'coherent framework' governing councils' activities.
  • Public Finance
    28 Feb 02
    Tony Blair's hint last week that the taxpayer would have to stump up for sustained investment in the NHS was hardly a revelation.
  • Public Finance
    21 Feb 02
    Railway employees including managers are being encouraged to go back to school to address the acute skills shortage in the industry.
  • Public Finance
    21 Feb 02
    Leader of the Commons Robin Cook has backed what he called the most fundamental overhaul ever of select committees. The modernisation committee, which Cook chairs, recommends limiting party...
  • Public Finance
    21 Feb 02
    A report released by Incomes Data Services has predicted that public employees' salaries will rise faster than that of their private sector counterparts during 2002.
  • Public Finance
    21 Feb 02
    An influential group of public sector leaders has thrown down the gauntlet to Tony Blair and demanded that he defend frontline workers from attacks on their professionalism.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    Scottish local authorities are increasingly suffering from central control of funding, an analysis published this week shows.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    School and college leaders have presented the government with a multimillion pound bill for delivering its new educational agenda for 14-19 year olds.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    The government reiterated its strategy to target Class A drug users as it announced figures which, it claimed, showed early treatment for users was producing big financial savings for the criminal...
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    Further education colleges have been promised less red tape after the Learning and Skills Council announced it would simplify the system of clawing back funds.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    Outsourcing specialist Capita Business Services this week claimed that it was 'naïve and not negligent' in its role in the collapse of the government's Individual Learning Accounts scheme.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    Hospital trusts have been given the go-ahead by health ministers for £1.1bn-worth of public-private partnership building schemes.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    The Local Government Association has backed David Blunkett's overhaul of the asylum system in the face of grassroots criticism over plans for induction centres in rural areas.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    So the deed is done.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    The appointment of Mike Tomlinson to replace the combative Chris Woodhead as chief inspector of schools and head of Ofsted has brought a welcome change of tone, MPs have said.
  • Public Finance
    14 Feb 02
    The health service must change the way it measures performance if it is to make a success of franchising arrangements for failing trusts, the NHS Confederation has warned.
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    The government has given nurses renewed hope of higher wages and more flexible working hours after it revealed that the NHS had reached its target of recruiting an extra 20,000 nurses three years...
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Boxing fans denied the prospect of a Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson match-up would have been well advised to turn their attentions to Cardiff last weekend, as the government and unions squared up to each...
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Education watchdog Mike Tomlinson praised teachers for improving the quality of education on offer in England's schools as he published his annual report for 2000/01.
  • Public Finance
    7 Feb 02
    Wendy Thomson's Office of Public Service Reform is to carry out a review of the willingness of government departments to let councils enjoy the new autonomy Stephen Byers promised them in his recent...
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    Town hall drama queens are to be tutored in how to play to the gallery, in a move sure to provoke hisses from officers everywhere.
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    The Local Government Association has vowed to 'fight on' in its battle to win more resources after the government published its 'disappointing' final finance settlement for local government.
  • Public Finance
    31 Jan 02
    A backlash against audit and inspection may be gathering force. New studies just published in the US say league tables for hospitals and schools can push up spending while reducing quality of service...
  • Public Finance
    24 Jan 02
    Scottish health unions have called for an investigation into a possible link between poor hygiene practices in hospitals and the rapid spread of a stomach virus across Scottish wards. Unison this...
  • Public Finance
    24 Jan 02
    The teaching unions have given a lukewarm response to the 3.5% pay award announced for English and Welsh schoolteachers for 2002.

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