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19 Nov 15
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said “amateurish” governance in schools must be improved, highlighting concerns about arrangements in nearly 500 schools in the last academic year.
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12 Nov 15
Will the changes outlined in the higher education green paper empower disadvantaged students, or hamper efforts to improve social mobility?
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9 Nov 15
High performing grant maintained schools should be given additional powers to take over struggling schools, including academies, the Local Government Association said today.
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6 Nov 15
Universities will only be able to increase tuition fees above £9,000 in line with inflation if they meet standards in a new national Teaching Excellence Framework, universities minister Jo Johnson...
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22 Oct 15
The quality of apprenticeships is suffering amid the government’s drive to increase their numbers and some courses may be a waste of public funds, an Ofsted report has concluded today.
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19 Oct 15
Will the government’s plan for three million new apprenticeships by 2020 add up in the long run?
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19 Oct 15
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills should redirect £500m from university grant funding into further education and extend the student loan system to FE students, the Policy...
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9 Oct 15
The school funding formula is undermining the effectiveness of the pupil premium scheme, MPs have warned.
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6 Oct 15
Parents who persistently allow their children to miss school will have their Child Benefit docked if they fail to pay fines, the prime minister has announced.
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6 Oct 15
Local government should be able to take over failing public services from Whitehall through an expansion of existing “right to challenge” powers, a report by the think-tank Respublica has...
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29 Sep 15
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the Conservative government’s policies have created an “unbalanced and unsustainable” economy that would leave Britain vulnerable to another...
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15 Sep 15
Councillors should use their “unique role” to help hold schools to account as they convert to academies, the Centre for Public Scrutiny has said.
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10 Sep 15
The quality of education in the first three years of secondary school is a cause for concern and is letting down too many students, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
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7 Sep 15
The London Borough of Croydon is to receive £102m from the European Investment Bank to improve schools across the borough, the first time that an EIB loan has been agreed for this purpose.
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3 Sep 15
The higher education participation rate in 2013/14 was 47%, four percentage points up on the preceding year, according to provisional estimates published by the Department of Business, Innovation and...
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2 Sep 15
David Cameron has provided details of how the government will meet its target to open 500 new free schools to 2020 after the first 18 were approved by ministers today.
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1 Sep 15
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out reforms to school testing as part of efforts to improve educational attainment in Scotland’s schools. The moves form part of the SNP...
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25 Aug 15
Schools where pupils fail to achieve a C grade or higher in GCSE maths and English should be fined, the Policy Exchange think-tank has suggested.
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20 Aug 15
The government has published a plan to boost the economic productivity of rural parts of England, with devolution of powers to local authorities and improvements to connectivity among the priorities.
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12 Aug 15
All but six of Scotland’s 32 councils are failing to comply with a six-year-old minimum recommended level of school clothing grants to disadvantaged families, and two have cut their payment...
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12 Aug 15
Nearly nine out of ten students at university and colleges in the UK are satisfied with their course, an annual poll for the Higher Education Funding Council for England has found.
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30 Jul 15
An independent commission set up to monitor the impact of higher tuition fees in England has called on the Office for Budget Responsibility to investigate whether the current student loan system...
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28 Jul 15
If society is to continue funding higher education through taxes, universities need to open up and work directly with local communities, to become problem-solvers and drivers of economic change.
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27 Jul 15
The government is planning a further expansion of its academies programme, but it is not clear there is capacity in the system to transform all these schools
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27 Jul 15
Councils are to be rated each year on the success of their efforts to keep young people in education, employment and training under a new government initiative, skills minister Nick Boles has...
19 Nov 15Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said “amateurish” governance in schools must be improved, highlighting concerns about arrangements in nearly 500 schools in the last academic year.
12 Nov 15Will the changes outlined in the higher education green paper empower disadvantaged students, or hamper efforts to improve social mobility?
9 Nov 15High performing grant maintained schools should be given additional powers to take over struggling schools, including academies, the Local Government Association said today.
6 Nov 15Universities will only be able to increase tuition fees above £9,000 in line with inflation if they meet standards in a new national Teaching Excellence Framework, universities minister Jo Johnson...
22 Oct 15The quality of apprenticeships is suffering amid the government’s drive to increase their numbers and some courses may be a waste of public funds, an Ofsted report has concluded today.
19 Oct 15Will the government’s plan for three million new apprenticeships by 2020 add up in the long run?
19 Oct 15The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills should redirect £500m from university grant funding into further education and extend the student loan system to FE students, the Policy...
9 Oct 15The school funding formula is undermining the effectiveness of the pupil premium scheme, MPs have warned.
6 Oct 15Parents who persistently allow their children to miss school will have their Child Benefit docked if they fail to pay fines, the prime minister has announced.
6 Oct 15Local government should be able to take over failing public services from Whitehall through an expansion of existing “right to challenge” powers, a report by the think-tank Respublica has...
29 Sep 15Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the Conservative government’s policies have created an “unbalanced and unsustainable” economy that would leave Britain vulnerable to another...
15 Sep 15Councillors should use their “unique role” to help hold schools to account as they convert to academies, the Centre for Public Scrutiny has said.
10 Sep 15The quality of education in the first three years of secondary school is a cause for concern and is letting down too many students, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
7 Sep 15The London Borough of Croydon is to receive £102m from the European Investment Bank to improve schools across the borough, the first time that an EIB loan has been agreed for this purpose.
1 Sep 15Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out reforms to school testing as part of efforts to improve educational attainment in Scotland’s schools. The moves form part of the SNP...
20 Aug 15The government has published a plan to boost the economic productivity of rural parts of England, with devolution of powers to local authorities and improvements to connectivity among the priorities.
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