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NAO recommends more regulation for early education

Released 03/02/2012

National Audit Office has published a report recommending that the DfE needs to do more to regulate the provision of early years education in order to get value for money from the scheme

Asbestos: “urgent action is needed”

Released 02/02/2012

MPs declare asbestos in schools is a ‘national scandal’

Cash is no longer king

Released 02/02/2012

COMMENT Ian Buss of Lloyds TSB Commercial explains why cash and cheques are so passé and online payments are here to stay

Look after your playground and it will look after you

Released 01/02/2012

COMMENT Jonathan Peters, a qualified RPII inspector, gives his top tips on taking care of outdoor play equipment

Educational support for London schools

Released 01/02/2012

Schools throughout London are to be given extra support for the upcoming exam season as Encyclopædia Britannica offers free access to online services

London teachers encouraged to embrace outdoors

Released 01/02/2012

A new scheme persuading teachers to utilise their school grounds for education purposes has been made available to all schools in London

Union to ballot teachers over pay

Released 01/02/2012

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers is to ballot members over discontinuous strikes as a result of a zero percentage pay offer by the Sixth Form Forum, it has been announced

Courses that “lead nowhere” taken off league tables

Released 31/01/2012

The government has announced it is to remove 3000 vocational subjects from school league tables

Trust comes on foot and leaves by Formula 1 racecar

Released 31/01/2012

COMMENT: In a high performance organisation, or HPO, all managers on every organisational level have to be of top-notch quality. André de Waal of the HPO Centre writes about one of the most important characteristic of a successful manager: truth

School photography company goes out of business

Released 30/01/2012

Thousands of schools could be affected as director hopes purchasing company will honour existing bookings

Only 7% of packed lunches comply with food standards

Released 30/01/2012

Shocking results of Lunch Box Amnesty show lunch box content fall way below food safety standards

Nine per cent drop in students applying for uni

Released 30/01/2012

University applications are down by almost nine per cent according to figures released today by UCAS

VSO appeal for education specialists in South Sudan

Released 30/01/2012

New programme to South Sudan calls for headteacher and education manager volunteers

ATL concedes to pension deal

Released 30/01/2012

Teacher union Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ has announced that it is to accept the Government’s revised pension offer for teachers

More than 100 secondary schools failing

Released 30/01/2012

Minister condemns “shocking waste of talent” as many schools are failing pupils from deprived backgrounds, according to information published by the Department of Education