There are now 4,000 academies but, as the education baton passes to Nicky Morgan, it may turn out that Michael Gove’s real legacy is in curriculum and teaching reforms
Public sector employment fell by a further 11,000 to 5.39 million in the second quarter of 2014 to hit the lowest level recorded since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics has...
Academy trusts are not doing enough to mitigate the risk of conflict of interest between schools and sponsors, while some rules intended to protect public money are ‘largely meaningless’, according...
The government must launch a national campaign to improve adult literacy and numeracy, which are at ‘alarmingly low’ levels and undermining the UK’s economic performance, MPs said today.
The government is getting better value for the £7bn spent each year on educating 16- to 18-year-olds but is unclear about exactly how this is being achieved, the National Audit Office has said.
The academy chain where David Hoare, the new head of Ofsted, has been a trustee since January has been adjudged to not be performing well enough by inspectors at the watchdog.
The government’s education policies are damaging the life chances of a generation of children and must be reversed, the new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said today.
Councils have been forced to abandon building projects, cut back on school maintenance and borrow additional money in order to plug a £1bn ‘black hole’ in funding for school places, the Local...
The policy to raise the compulsory participation age in education and training to 18 next year lacks the legal underpinning it needs to be a success, the Work Foundation has warned.
The government's flagship free school meals policy faces significant underfunding after it has emerged that nearly half of all local authorities do not have enough money to bring their school...
A programme to support troubled families has been expanded to help vulnerable younger children get a better start in life, the government announced today.
Two education trade unions have joined an initiative to develop new school performance league tables in a bid to increase the range of information available to parents.
Satisfaction levels for students studying at UK universities and colleges has hit a 10-year high, with 86% of those polled saying they were satisfied overall with their course.
The government’s controversial decision in 2011 to increase tuition fees had little impact on the number of young people becoming full-time undergraduates, Universities UK has said.
A trustee of a chain of academy schools has been appointed as the new chair of Ofsted by education secretary Nicky Morgan in her first major appointment since taking up the post earlier this month.
There has been a ‘striking’ change in the way universities are spending money in order to support disadvantaged students, the Office for Fair Access said today as it published access agreements for...
The government persistently miscalculates how much it will lose when it makes students loans, a problem that threatens the long-term viability of the model, MPs have warned.
Sixty-nine local authorities are to receive extra school funding from the Department for Education for the next academic year, schools minister David Laws has confirmed.
A think-tank has called on the government to provide parents who work at least 20 hours a week with up to 25 hours of free early education for their pre-school children.
Universities and colleges increased the amount they spend on widening participation by £61m last year, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Office for Fair Access (Offa)...
Schools in England are making good use of their pupil premium funding to successfully boost the attainment of disadvantaged students, Ofsted said today.