The A-Level pass rate has risen for the 28th successive year. Debasing the coinage. It's what governments do....

I spent much of today visiting Further Education Colleges in my region so that I could discuss the impact of Welsh Government cuts on them. Despite the fact that the Government's Education Department received a 5.5% uplift in its funding in the next financial year they have delivered a cut in the money they are putting into further education. There is in fact £3 million less to spend on...

Mostly unnoticed in last Friday's post-election fall out, at about lunch time the department for innovation, universities and skills disappeared. There is now no minister for education or universities in the government. This is a curious state of affairs for a party that first won power with education at the top of its list of priorities; and although the record is certainly not all bad, it c...

Apparently, most aspiring Conservative candidates want to be Education Secretary, according to a Conservative Home survey. Perhaps they see it as the easiest option for people with limited experience of anything else - after all, they all went to school, so they must be education experts. On the other hand, perhaps they genuinely feel education is the most important issue facing government. So may...

Home educators’ fears came true yesterday when the government accepted the findings of the Badman report which recommended that they register annually and demonstrate to local authorities that they are providing a suitable education. For anyone unfamiliar with home education,...

Education Secretary Michael Russell denies the Scottish government is abandoning promises on education.

Commenting on the news that the Government is cutting grants for new higher education students from September 2009, Martin Freedman, head of pay, conditions and pensions at AMiE partner the Association of Teachers Lecturers (ATL), said: “The Government’s higher education policy is...

Absolutely. We don’t need government dictating education to us, but government thinks we are too stupid to be allowed to educate our own children.

Can someone help me out, please? The Treasury's coffers are empty. The last thing the Chancellor needs is greater demand for public spending - say, education spending. So why then is the government embarked on a war against private schools - a war that, if successful, will only result in private schools hiking their fees to pay for state-compelled bursaries, thereby forcing many parents to pu...

The government is in confusion after claims that the education maintenance allowance, intended to keep pupils in education after 16, has failed the poorest families