The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has accused the Department for Education of ‘an alarming reluctance’ to work with local authorities to improve services for children in care.
Free schools should be given priority to use vacant public sector land or buildings as part of a plan to expand the number of the institutions, which are funded directly from government and...
Schools are not doing enough to challenge high-performing students to enable them to fulfil their potential, according to the education watchdog Ofsted.
Devolution in England could add £144bn a year to the UK economy by 2020 by handing powers and funds to local enterprise partnerships, according to a report from Localis.
Ed Miliband has announced that a future Labour government would cut university fees in England to £6,000 from autumn 2016, funding it with a reduction in pension tax relief for top earners.
The government’s ‘lax approach’ to the regulation of private higher education has led to almost £4m in public money being given to ineligible European students in loans and grants, the Public...
Labour has been urged to ‘come clean’ on the party’s plans for the funding of higher education following speculation that it would go into May’s general election proposing to cut the maximum that can...
The price of a university degree is prompting young people to look at alternative career routes. Apprentices learn on the job, as well as in the classroom, while being paid. How should public sector...
A rift between ministers and councils over the Scottish Government’s pledge to maintain pupil-teacher ratios has widened, after the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it was considering a...
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to devolve skills funding to combined authorities in the Midlands as part of a 15-year plan to make the region ‘an engine for growth’.
Public services spend almost £17bn a year on addressing the impact of a host of social problems affecting young people, a study by the Early Intervention Foundation has found.
A future Labour government would introduce a tax dodging Bill that would see stronger independent scrutiny of the UK tax system and make country-by-country reporting information publicly available.
The government has announced a £6bn expansion of its Priority School Building Programme, with 277 schools set to be refurbished over the next three years.
Over 3,300 ‘coasting’ schools could be taken over by academy chains or have their head teachers replaced if they do not improve, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today.
Taxpayers are losing more than £800m a year because of the ‘bums on seats’ system of funding post-16 education, the Local Government Association has warned.
The Department for Education’s ‘complex and confused’ oversight regime for academies has left it reliant on whistleblowers to identify financial risks or governance problems in schools, the Public...
Academy funding must be made more transparent and new rules governing spending are needed to tackle possible conflicts of interest in the sector, the education select committee has said.
The chair of the Treasury select committee has backed the creation of a grand committee to implement a system of ‘English votes for English laws’, which could also have responsibility for local...
The trebling of tuition fees appears unlikely to produce expected savings for the Exchequer. And graduates will repay twice as much, nursing debts well into their 50s. So what’s gone wrong?
The auditor general has given the Department for Education an adverse opinion after concluding it failed to meet Parliament’s accountability requirements on academy spending.
Schools could soon face a tipping point where there is no more space or money to offer extra places to pupils that need them, the Local Government Association has warned.
The decision by the coalition government to increase university tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year has contributed to a decline in more flexible forms of higher education, an analysis...