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8 Jan 18
Most areas planned to continue to offer local authority school improvement services, despite the drift of schools out of council control under free school and academy programmes.
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2 Jan 18
The New Year once again brought honours for a range of public sector leaders and professionals, including the finance directors of the NHS and the Department for Education.
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13 Dec 17
A hard-core of some 130 ‘intractable’ schools has stubbornly failed to improve since 2005 despite repeated efforts, the chief inspector of schools has said.
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8 Dec 17
Some students could be being “mis-sold” degree courses, government auditors have suggested in a critical report on the higher education market.
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7 Dec 17
The Sutton Trust’s Conor Ryan considers the fallout from the resignations at the Social Mobility Commission and suggests where the policy agenda could go next.
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6 Dec 17
Health and education ministers have issued joint plans to improve the mental health support available to children in schools and colleges.
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5 Dec 17
Facts and figures from the December 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from the second CIPFA-Institute for Government Performance Tracker report
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24 Nov 17
The government is failing to recruit enough teachers and stopping current staff from leaving the profession, school leaders warned today.
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23 Nov 17
Pressing public services issues were conspicuous by their absence from the Budget speech yesterday, says the Institute for Government's Emily Andrews.
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23 Nov 17
While Philip Hammond's funding commitments to education in the Budget were positive it will take more than cash to get education right, says Reform's Emilie Sundorph.
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22 Nov 17
The government will provide £40m to train maths teachers across the country to give pupils the knowledge needed for the digital economy, chancellor Philip Hammond said in his Budget statement.
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21 Nov 17
Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
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15 Nov 17
A letter endorsed by 5,000 head teachers across England has been handed to Downing Street calling for an extra £1.7bn in school funding.
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8 Nov 17
The government should introduce measures to redistribute revenue in favour of the young who “have been left behind for too long”, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has said today.
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6 Nov 17
Facts and figures from the November 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine on changing attitudes to tax and spending, public support for the NHS and rising inflation
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30 Oct 17
Student finance has at last become an electoral issue. This could provide the impetus for an overhaul so everyone can afford to go to university, says the Sutton Trust's Javneet Ghuman.
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30 Oct 17
The Department for Education needs to reduce payments to students who do not finish their studies at non-publicly funded higher education providers, the spending watchdog has found.
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19 Oct 17
Universities and colleges should make fundamental changes to diversify their student bodies and ensure increased access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
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19 Oct 17
The government is “trapped in a reactive spending cycle on public services”, an analysis released by the Institute for Government and CIPFA today has warned.
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18 Oct 17
Tuition fees should be cut and interest rates lowered but the repayment threshold should remain at current levels, according to the Centre for Policy Studies.
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16 Oct 17
UK universities’ “knock-on impact” of nearly £100bn to the UK economy and almost a million jobs should not be “taken for granted”, a membership organisation said...
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16 Oct 17
Head teachers are urging MPs to take the education funding crisis seriously, warning that school budgets are at “breaking point”.
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12 Oct 17
The government has released a first-of-its-kind audit, revealing the disparities between ethnic groups and their health, education, employment and justice outcomes.
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9 Oct 17
The Scottish Government will lift the public sector pay cap as promised but how much it can do this relies on the chancellor, Derek Mackay said today.
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4 Oct 17
School leaders are feeling a squeeze on budgets because many have never had to properly ration their resources until now.
8 Jan 18Most areas planned to continue to offer local authority school improvement services, despite the drift of schools out of council control under free school and academy programmes.
2 Jan 18The New Year once again brought honours for a range of public sector leaders and professionals, including the finance directors of the NHS and the Department for Education.
8 Dec 17Some students could be being “mis-sold” degree courses, government auditors have suggested in a critical report on the higher education market.
7 Dec 17The Sutton Trust’s Conor Ryan considers the fallout from the resignations at the Social Mobility Commission and suggests where the policy agenda could go next.
6 Dec 17Health and education ministers have issued joint plans to improve the mental health support available to children in schools and colleges.
5 Dec 17Facts and figures from the December 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from the second CIPFA-Institute for Government Performance Tracker report
23 Nov 17Pressing public services issues were conspicuous by their absence from the Budget speech yesterday, says the Institute for Government's Emily Andrews.
23 Nov 17While Philip Hammond's funding commitments to education in the Budget were positive it will take more than cash to get education right, says Reform's Emilie Sundorph.
22 Nov 17The government will provide £40m to train maths teachers across the country to give pupils the knowledge needed for the digital economy, chancellor Philip Hammond said in his Budget statement.
21 Nov 17Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
8 Nov 17The government should introduce measures to redistribute revenue in favour of the young who “have been left behind for too long”, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has said today.
6 Nov 17Facts and figures from the November 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine on changing attitudes to tax and spending, public support for the NHS and rising inflation
30 Oct 17Student finance has at last become an electoral issue. This could provide the impetus for an overhaul so everyone can afford to go to university, says the Sutton Trust's Javneet Ghuman.
30 Oct 17The Department for Education needs to reduce payments to students who do not finish their studies at non-publicly funded higher education providers, the spending watchdog has found.
19 Oct 17Universities and colleges should make fundamental changes to diversify their student bodies and ensure increased access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
16 Oct 17UK universities’ “knock-on impact” of nearly £100bn to the UK economy and almost a million jobs should not be “taken for granted”, a membership organisation said...
9 Oct 17The Scottish Government will lift the public sector pay cap as promised but how much it can do this relies on the chancellor, Derek Mackay said today.
4 Oct 17School leaders are feeling a squeeze on budgets because many have never had to properly ration their resources until now.
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