Ulster Unionist MLA Tom Elliott has stated his worry about the ever increasing amount of money spent on supply teachers in Northern Ireland each year. He was speaking after figures released to him by the Department for Education showed that between 2002/03 and 2006/07 the amount spent on employing supply teachers rose from almost £45 million pounds to just over £51 million pounds, an increase of a...

The BBC is having great old time howling about education cuts - we'll less money bunged to the construction industry anyway. But a simple truth is now getting aired. Good teachers teaching teachable children ( ie set by ability ) in a disciplined environment makes all the difference. Buildings, computers, text books, trips, sports halls, equipment don't. Which is good, since the money�...

FIONA Hyslop, the education secretary, was yesterday challenged to provide extra funds to help newly-qualified teachers who are struggling to find work.

What a joy to work in the State Education sector. Get this. "A second English school has sent children home to allow teachers to fly to Spain for ‘training’, it emerged last night. Whitegate End Primary School, in Oldham was shut last Friday after it sent all its teachers to Barcelona for the weekend. The news comes just days after a secondary school in Stoke-on-Trent abandoned plans t...

That would be Jerry Reed's "You make it, They take it" Income tax man’s a-knockin’ at my door And yellin’ money, money (money-money-money) Income tax man’s a-yellin’ for some more Money, money (money-money-money) [Chorus] ‘Cause when you make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they take it (money-money-money) You make it they ta-a-a-ke it, they...

The Lords Merits Committee has hit the nail on the head saying the Government should leave greater room for teachers to use their professional expertise to improve education, in its report into education regulations, according to our AMiE partner, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers...

Aristotle was right: you can’t make money out of money Amazing really: entirely missing the point that we all did start making money around 1750 when we did realise that as money has a time value you can indeed make money out of money. Next week, Ritchie’s GP wife lectures us on why Galen is

OECD research shows that the argument that the state "can't afford" to fund higher education is exactly and totally wrong - this is a money maker, not a money loser and borrowing to spend on higher and further education is a fantastic deal for the taxpayer. To improve the public finances, we should support greater spending on higher and further education, not massive cuts.

Micro-management by the government, which is churning out too many education policies, is making teachers feel devalued, according to our AMiE partner, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). This leads to teachers being demotivated, fearing to trust their own judgement about how best to...

Governments with money centralise and claim the credit. Governments without cash decentralise and spread the blame. Those are not the views of a hardened media cynic. They are what I was told by one of the Tories' top policy wonks before the election.   Today Eric Pickles will take money - lots and lots of money - away from local councils. He will, at the same time, promise them new free...