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16 Mar 16
Soft drinks manufacturers will have to pay a “sugar tax” on their products, expected to net the Treasury £520m, chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Budget.
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7 Mar 16
Education secretary Nicky Morgan has set out more details of reforms to the funding formula for schools, which will remove local authorities from any role in the distribution of resources.
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4 Mar 16
English universities are set to increase borrowing levels in order to mitigate government funding reductions and to upgrade facilities, an analysis of the financial health of the sector by credit...
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1 Mar 16
Funding for research and the possibility for cross-border collaboration in research projects would be under threat if Britain was to leave the European Union, panellists at a Universities UK debate...
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29 Feb 16
The Local Government Association has today reiterated that councils may not be able to provide a school place for every child unless they are given additional powers, including the ability to force...
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29 Feb 16
Government plans to introduce a new teaching framework for universities, linked to powers to increase tuition fees, must be carefully planned to avoid harming the sector’s reputation, according...
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26 Feb 16
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned that the England’s education system is facing a teacher “brain drain” and that staff shortages may reach “situation critical”.
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23 Feb 16
Poor secondary school performance is setting the Northern Powerhouse up to “splutter and die”, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw warned in a speech today.
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10 Feb 16
Teacher shortages are growing with the government’s continued failure to recruit and train sufficient numbers, the National Audit Office has warned.
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10 Feb 16
Young offenders should serve their sentences in secure schools rather than prisons, initial findings from former head teacher Charlie Taylor’s review into youth justice suggest.
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9 Feb 16
Education watchdog Ofsted has called for urgent improvements to secondary schools run by the E-ACT chain of academy after a review concluded standards at the trust were not good enough.
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9 Feb 16
Schools are still not doing enough to ensure the quality and safety of outside providers educating their pupils, Ofsted has found.
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5 Feb 16
Theresa May has indicated that the government will expand the powers of police and crime commissioners following this year’s elections and could be given powers to set up free schools.
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21 Jan 16
Votes for strike action in public services including health, education, transport, fire and rescue, and border security will need to be supported by at least 40% of union members if they are to go...
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20 Jan 16
The government must design a new system of school governance to reflect the large increase in the number of academy and free schools, MPs have said.
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19 Jan 16
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said that the current accountability regime for schools is “confused and inconsistent” and could undermine improvements to the education system.
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15 Jan 16
Councils will be unable to meet their legal duty to ensure all children have access to a school place unless academies expand to meet demand, the Local Government Association has warned today.
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12 Jan 16
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has launched a cross-party commission to investigate how to close regional gaps in school attainment that have widened over the past 30 years.
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11 Jan 16
School budgets are at “breaking point” as real terms funding cuts and mounting spending needs have put huge pressure on finances, a group of teacher unions has warned today.
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3 Dec 15
With council pay negotiations set to begin, it’s time to reflect on deteriorating wages and conditions for workers in councils and schools.
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1 Dec 15
Ofsted’s annual report has revealed that underperforming secondary schools in England are concentrated in the North and Midlands, where over 400,000 children attend a secondary school rated as...
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27 Nov 15
Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
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27 Nov 15
When the cap on student numbers was abolished, England’s universities gained new opportunities to raise funds and grow – so how have they reacted?
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25 Nov 15
The school funding system is to be overhauled and sixth form colleges are to be allowed to become academies, exempting them from VAT, chancellor George Osborne has announced.
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24 Nov 15
Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
16 Mar 16Soft drinks manufacturers will have to pay a “sugar tax” on their products, expected to net the Treasury £520m, chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Budget.
7 Mar 16Education secretary Nicky Morgan has set out more details of reforms to the funding formula for schools, which will remove local authorities from any role in the distribution of resources.
4 Mar 16English universities are set to increase borrowing levels in order to mitigate government funding reductions and to upgrade facilities, an analysis of the financial health of the sector by credit...
1 Mar 16Funding for research and the possibility for cross-border collaboration in research projects would be under threat if Britain was to leave the European Union, panellists at a Universities UK debate...
29 Feb 16The Local Government Association has today reiterated that councils may not be able to provide a school place for every child unless they are given additional powers, including the ability to force...
29 Feb 16Government plans to introduce a new teaching framework for universities, linked to powers to increase tuition fees, must be carefully planned to avoid harming the sector’s reputation, according...
26 Feb 16Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned that the England’s education system is facing a teacher “brain drain” and that staff shortages may reach “situation critical”.
10 Feb 16Teacher shortages are growing with the government’s continued failure to recruit and train sufficient numbers, the National Audit Office has warned.
10 Feb 16Young offenders should serve their sentences in secure schools rather than prisons, initial findings from former head teacher Charlie Taylor’s review into youth justice suggest.
9 Feb 16Education watchdog Ofsted has called for urgent improvements to secondary schools run by the E-ACT chain of academy after a review concluded standards at the trust were not good enough.
9 Feb 16Schools are still not doing enough to ensure the quality and safety of outside providers educating their pupils, Ofsted has found.
5 Feb 16Theresa May has indicated that the government will expand the powers of police and crime commissioners following this year’s elections and could be given powers to set up free schools.
21 Jan 16Votes for strike action in public services including health, education, transport, fire and rescue, and border security will need to be supported by at least 40% of union members if they are to go...
15 Jan 16Councils will be unable to meet their legal duty to ensure all children have access to a school place unless academies expand to meet demand, the Local Government Association has warned today.
12 Jan 16Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has launched a cross-party commission to investigate how to close regional gaps in school attainment that have widened over the past 30 years.
3 Dec 15With council pay negotiations set to begin, it’s time to reflect on deteriorating wages and conditions for workers in councils and schools.
27 Nov 15Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
27 Nov 15When the cap on student numbers was abolished, England’s universities gained new opportunities to raise funds and grow – so how have they reacted?
25 Nov 15The school funding system is to be overhauled and sixth form colleges are to be allowed to become academies, exempting them from VAT, chancellor George Osborne has announced.
24 Nov 15Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
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