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25 Sep 17
Almost all school staff in England are paying for classroom resources out of their own pockets to plug funding gaps, according to new research.
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24 Sep 17
A majority of support workers in health and local government believe services they help provide are deteriorating, a trade union survey has found.
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19 Sep 17
The failure of academy schools to share data is weakening attempts by councils to boost skills and employment, according to a panel of local government experts speaking at the Liberal Democrat...
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18 Sep 17
The board that oversees Glasgow’s three further education colleges has dropped plans to award a 17% pay rise to a senior official.
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18 Sep 17
The chancellor could be planning to cut tuition fees saving students around £5,000 for the cost of their degree, according to reports.
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18 Sep 17
Efforts to improve teacher training and retention have failed to demonstrate a positive impact or value for money, according to the National Audit Office.
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15 Sep 17
Scottish education secretary John Swinney faces mounting pressure – including from within his own party – to intervene over a 17% pay rise for a top college executive at a time when pay...
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15 Sep 17
The government has announced details of its new funding system for schools aimed at eliminating the postcode lottery affecting the education sector.
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8 Sep 17
Universities will have to justify vice-chancellor salaries and could be fined for paying excessive amounts, as part of proposals to cut higher education costs.
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1 Sep 17
Almost half of councils risk being unable to meet rising demand for secondary school places within the next five years, the Local Government Association has warned.
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29 Aug 17
A national system would end the current postcode lottery that is school funding. School leaders now have the opportunity to tell the government what a fair system would look like, says Julia Harnden
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27 Aug 17
The University of Manchester’s announcement in May that it was to make 171 staff redundant took many higher education watchers by surprise. Its reasons for the decision were strikingly diverse...
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24 Aug 17
England’s education system needs to undergo significant improvement if it is to keep pace with the world’s best, an Education Policy Institute report has warned.
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23 Aug 17
Every university in England has now committed to working with schools from 2018-19 to improve access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
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17 Aug 17
The UK’s biggest further education provider Learndirect blamed government funding cuts for a highly critical Ofsted report, out today.
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16 Aug 17
The top rate of interest on student loans will go up to 6.1% this year as planned, the government has confirmed.
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14 Aug 17
Young people who live the country’s poorest postcode areas have only a 20% chance of entering university, education charity Teach First has found.
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10 Aug 17
Fewer young people think they are likely to go into higher education because of concern over costs, research from The Sutton Trust suggests.
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4 Aug 17
The poorest pupils have fallen further behind their non-disadvantaged peers since 2007, an Education Policy Institute report has found.
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31 Jul 17
The university pension scheme deficit jumped by £9bn last year, rising to £17.5bn – the largest on record at any British retirement fund.
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28 Jul 17
Councils have accused the government of “hijacking” the soft drinks levy to plug the hole in education budgets.
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27 Jul 17
The government has abandoned the Conservative manifesto pledge to introduce free school breakfasts.
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18 Jul 17
Teaching unions have blasted the government’s pledge to increase school budgets by £1.3bn from efficiencies within the Department for Education as “smoke and mirrors”.
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13 Jul 17
The UK’s productivity problem starts with early years education as failures at this stage have repercussions throughout people’s lives, the CIPFA conference heard.
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10 Jul 17
Concern about public sector pay limits has focused on NHS and emergency service workers. But pay for more than a million school and council workers has been kept down for longer and it’s time...