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.
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.
High performing grant maintained schools should be given additional powers to take over struggling schools, including academies, the Local Government Association said today.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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