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11 Jan 19
The government should consider redistributing funds from schools with ‘excessive’ surpluses to bolster those with weaker finances, an education think-tank has suggested today.
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4 Jan 19
Politicians need to guarantee that EU research funding will be replaced following Brexit, university leaders have urged.
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20 Dec 18
Two-thirds of academy school groups performed below the national average for disadvantaged pupils, according to research released today.
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19 Dec 18
A cash injection to help councils provide services for children with special educational needs “isn’t enough”, school leaders have warned.
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17 Dec 18
The national deficit will increase by £12bn when the Office for National Statistics changes the way it records students loans.
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17 Dec 18
Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
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12 Dec 18
The Scottish finance secretary has announced a raft of funding increases for public services but warned priorities could change with no deal Brexit.
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10 Dec 18
Facts and figures on public sector appointments, growth expectations and the costs of feeding Gladstone, the Treasury cat. From the December 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine.
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4 Dec 18
Head teachers have criticised Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman for failing to acknowledge the impact of budget cuts on schools.
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23 Nov 18
An attempt to improve public finances by selling off student loans could have in fact damaged them, according to a group of MPs.
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22 Nov 18
The government must ensure academies “can be trusted to manage large amounts of public money”, the spending watchdog has urged.
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15 Nov 18
Social care was the largest area of increased expenditure for local authorities in the last financial year, government figures have revealed.
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15 Nov 18
Local bodies working with vulnerable children must not “repeat the mistakes of the past” around child exploitation, a joint watchdog has said.
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14 Nov 18
The UK could follow Donald Trump’s lead and stop funding Unesco, the UN’s cultural and education body, saving £11.1m a year.
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8 Nov 18
Academy schools in England recorded a £6.1bn deficit at the end of last August, leading to one major teaching union calling them “unsustainable”.
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6 Nov 18
Universities are not providing value for money and need a “sharper focus” on graduate skills and outcomes, MPs have urged.
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1 Nov 18
Education spending has undergone a “remarkable shift” in focus towards poorer pupils, Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis has found.
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29 Oct 18
The chancellor told the Commons austerity is “coming to an end” today, announcing funding boosts for the Ministry of Defence to the tune of £1bn and adult social care of £650m.
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12 Oct 18
School inspections will relax the emphasis on grades and focus instead on the wider ‘quality of education’, according to Ofsted head Amanda Spielman.
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5 Oct 18
managing director of education and members at CIPFA
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4 Oct 18
A teaching union has said the £114m education spend announced by the secretary of state at the Conservative Party Conference was a “drop in the ocean”.
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28 Sep 18
More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
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25 Sep 18
Labour would scrap academies and free schools and return control of education back to councils, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the party’s conference in Liverpool today.
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19 Sep 18
The government should borrow tens of billions of pounds more a year to protect public services, a think-tank has suggested.
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17 Sep 18
The education funding squeeze for 16 to 18 year olds in England is “clear and worrying”, a think-tank report has said.