Ed Balls, Labour’s Schools Secretary, today responded to the Tory shadow schools minister’s admission that more than 750 new school building projects in 90 local authorities across England could be scrapped if the Tories are elected. These form part of Labour’s ambitious Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Schools Secretary, will today challenge the Conservatives to come clean on which new schools face the axe under their planned cuts to Labour's school building programme. It comes as the Labour government announces the allocation of over £1billion of funding for extra school places and new schools. An additional £300m will be provided for extra primary sc...

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagship schools policies – new ‘free market' schools and a national ‘pupil premium'. Earlier today, Ed Balls set out to Parliament...

Jim Knight MP, Labour's Schools Minister, today challenged the Conservatives to come clean on whether they support new grammar schools. Mr Knight has written to the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove who is today visiting grammar schools with Graham...

The Conservatives would allow primary schools also to become academies. Currently this right is limited to secondary schools only.

A senior Labour Councillor in Plymouth today accused Conservatives in the city of abandoning mature politics and a "dash for glory" in a row over the allocation of a huge Building Schools for the Future grant from the Labour Government. The Plymouth cabinet has agreed to set up a committee comprising three cabinet members who have voting rights, with a further Conservative member as an observer. L...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagship schools policies &# new ‘free market’ schools and a national ‘pupil premium’. Earlier today, Ed Balls set out to Parl...

The Welsh Conservatives have unveiled their big idea in the field of education this morning, free schools. Well yes, I know that school education has been free for a very long time but this is not what they are getting at. The plan is to set up schools directly funded by the Welsh Assembly Government so as to give them the freedom to make their own decisions. However, all schools will have to abid...

PROPOSALS for a transformation in Welsh state education will be unveiled today when the Conservatives launch their vision of “free schools”.

John Denham has called on the Tories to come clean on whether all proposed building Schools for the Future schools would be funded by a Tory Government. Yesterday on a visit to Southampton David Cameron was reported as promising the funding for the city's five BSF schools would be guaranteed. But Mr Denham pointed out that Tory schools minister Nick Gibb had recently said the Conservatives we...