College staff face zero pay rise warning
College staff risk a real-terms pay cut next year unless ministers provide significant funding, college leaders and unions have warned in a joint letter.
£3m in bonuses for C&G bosses? It doesn’t add up
Conflicting accounts continue to emerge about whether City & Guilds Foundation trustees knew large bonuses were paid to senior executives after the sale of their awarding business.
Extra help for more students on Turing’s final trips
The Turing scheme’s budget will remain unchanged at £78 million for its final year despite more ‘disadvantaged’ students becoming eligible for extra support.
City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece
The vocational training body City & Guilds has guaranteed that plans for mass compulsory redundancies and the offshoring of hundreds of UK jobs to Greece will no longer go ahead.
VAT on private school fees not caused exodus to state sector, says Bridget Phillipson
Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.
DfE proposes early years training shakeup
Government is consulting on two options for redesigning early years training so it leads to qualified teacher status.
Spare school places hit record high
The number of spare primary and secondary places across England has increased by 15 per cent since 2023-24.
MPs launch inquiry into Labour’s school reform plans
Committee will scrutinise DfE’s teacher recruitment targets and plans to reform accountability measures and narrow the disadvantage gap.
Union stands down after City & Guilds offshoring assurances
Union officials have called off a workforce redundancy dispute with City & Guilds bosses that threatened to boil over into legal and industrial action.
City & Guild Foundation starts own probe into PeopleCert deal
City & Guilds Foundation has agreed to hold an independent inquiry into the controversial sale of its City & Guilds awarding business.
Education Secretary: DfE working to ‘find right balance’ for early years CCTV plan
The Department for Education is working to ‘get the balance right’ between protecting children and causing ‘unintended consequences’ for the early years sector before announcing any changes to guidance around CCTV, the Education Secretary has said.
Usefulness of Ofsted judgments questioned by complaints analysis
Childcare experts are questioning the use and accuracy of Ofsted inspection judgments after latest research found more than half of complaints and concerns about “outstanding” early years providers were logged after their most recent inspection.
UK to close Turing exchange scheme when it rejoins Erasmus+
Post-Brexit programme established by Boris Johnson’s government shuttered after supporting 200,000 participants.
The paths to enrichment
Especially for pupils in Years 6, 11 and 13, the school year in England ends with a crescendo of formal testing.
A skills‑first labour market
Labour markets across OECD countries are undergoing rapid transformation, widening the gap between the skills employers need and those that formal education systems alone can provide.
Empowering learners for the age of AI: An AI literacy framework for primary and secondary education
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly embedded in digital life, often invisibly shaping real-world outcomes.
Giving informal learning the recognition it deserves
Informal learning is a central yet often overlooked pillar of lifelong learning.
Advancing inclusive growth in cities for youth
Across the OECD and the EU, young people in cities face particular challenges in accessing quality jobs, affordable and adequate housing, essential services, and urban amenities.
When university metrics backfire: what REF, TEF and NSS can learn from academic gaming behaviours
Performance metrics are meant to improve universities. But when metrics become targets, they can start to reshape the behaviours they are supposed to measure.
New HEPI Report ‘Interconnected Innovation: Physical connectivity as the missing ingredient in UK research and innovation policy’
The UK’s research strengths are world-class, but too often they operate in isolation rather than as part of a connected national system. A new HEPI report argues that better transport and infrastructure links could unlock significant gains in collaboration, innovation and...