Ministers should consider setting out multi-year funding plans for children’s centres as part of a long-term plan for early years education, according to the Commons education committee.
‘Freedom’ from council control does not mean an abdication of responsibility. Academies and free schools need to improve their approaches to both governance and financial probity
England’s education system is improving but is marred by significant regional differences, chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw said today as he published his second annual report
The costs of the government’s controversial free schools programme are increasing and the Department for Education needs to exert more control over funding, the National Audit Office has said today.
Children who are eligible for free school meals are ‘disproportionately unlikely’ to be admitted to grammar schools in the parts of the country where they operate, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
The further education sector needs to learn from other public services how to tackle poor performance and improve quality, according to a Skills Commission report
Higher education in England needs strong and coherent regulation as the sector moves in a more diverse and increasingly market-driven direction, an expert commission has said.
The Welsh government has struck a deal with two opposition parties to reform social care provision and increase school spending, First Minister Carwyn Jones has revealed.
Continuing to ringfence NHS and schools spending is placing ‘the full burden of financial stringency’ on other Whitehall departments and could lead to waste in protected areas, the Treasury select...
The ‘friends and family test’ used to judge the quality of NHS hospitals is to expanded to other public services, including job centres and further education colleges, Cabinet Office minister Francis...
Schools minister David Laws has revealed that the government is considering making long-term capital allocations to councils to provide new school places, in a bid to tackle what he called the ‘...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said he would support continuing to ring-fence spending on both the NHS and schools over the five years to the end of the next parliament in 2020.
The National Union of Teachers has launched a campaign highlighting what it calls the ‘crisis’ in school place provision and calling for local government to be given powers to open new schools.
Schools in Wales could potentially save £9m a year if the level of teacher absences could be reduced to the level in England, a report by the Wales Audit Office has found
School performance in England has experienced a rapid improvement, with 600,000 more children now receiving an education judged as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’, Ofsted said today.
The two largest teaching unions are to hold one-day strikes next month as their dispute with the government over changes to pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs escalates.
Nearly one-third of public sector workers are considering returning to work part-time after their retirement due to concerns over how they will be able to cope financially.
School head teachers are now able to link teachers’ pay to performance after education secretary Michael Gove confirmed the extension of this flexibility from academies to maintained schools in...
No further free schools should be created in areas where there is a surplus of school places so that funding can be focused on parts of the country that face a squeeze on capacity, the Local...
Steve Freer, CIPFA’s chief executive for the past 13 years, weighs up the significance for the public sector, the accountancy profession and the institute of this extraordinarily turbulent period
Rob Whiteman likes to pump up the volume, whether it’s belting out operatic arias or singing the praises of accountants. CIPFA’s new chief executive tells PF he intends to be a vocal presence in the...