EDUCATION - FURTHER EDUCATION
Colleges braced for cash regime change
TES Focus
26/03/2010
Responsibility for funding post-16 provision transfers to local authorities from April 2010.
Colleges snap at heels of universities for HE grants
TES Focus
26/03/2010
Top five college providers of higher education will receive teaching grants approaching £50m.
Every region in England to receive funding increases for education for 16 to 18 year olds
DCSF News Release
30/03/2010
Ed Balls today announced all nine regions in England will receive increased allocations to fund 55,000 more 16 to 18 year olds in school sixth forms and colleges in the 2010/11 academic year than this
Further education faces an uncertain future
Guardian
06/04/2010
David Willetts promises to simplify the new funding system for further education under a Tory government
Private businesses aim to take over failing colleges after election
TES
02/04/2010
Companies and venture-capital backers hope to swoop for further education’s ‘inadequates’ if next government allows takeovers.
Skills Funding Agency
Skills Funding Agency
01/04/2010
The Skills Funding Agency came into existence on the 1st April 2010 and is an agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It replaces the Learning and Skills Council.
- EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
Crunch-busting cash helps those who help themselves
THES
01/04/2010
A total of £1.5 million to help universities develop new strategies and business models to cope with the financial downturn has been distributed by funding chiefs.
Cuts what cuts? University vice-chancellors pay up by 10%
Guardian
01/04/2010
Despite funding cuts of £900m which threaten 14,000 academic posts vice-chancellors pay and benefits rose by 10.6% last year
Hefce's bid for power to oust v-cs gets the cold shoulder
THES
01/04/2010
Proposals that would give funding chiefs the power to oust vice-chancellors have been negatively received by the sector. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has proposed changes to the "financial memorandum" - the funding agreement between Hefce and universities
Lammy announces ‘next steps’ towards a better deal for students
BIS News release
01/04/2010
Higher Education Minister David Lammy announced today that a working group co-chaired by the National Union of Students and Universities UK will produce guidance for developing university and higher education college charters.
Majority of young women in university
BBC News
31/03/2010
A watershed in university participation has been reached -for the first time a majority of young women in England are going to university
Student unions warned over data disclosure
THES
01/04/2010
The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (Fosis) claims that students' names, addresses and phone numbers have in the past been handed to police in the absence of a warrant.
Ucea's opening 0.25% pay offer is jointly rejected
THES
01/04/2010
An opening pay offer from university employers has been rejected by the campus unions at the first meeting of the 2010-11 negotiations.
- EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
Committee report looks at foundations of education system
Parliamentary News
06/04/2010
The Children, Schools and Families Committee today publishes its report examining the foundations of the education system.
Government sets out first ever 'Teachers' Guarantee'
DCSF News Release
05/04/2010
The 'Teachers' Guarantee' goes alongside the Government's pupil and parent guarantees.
LAs to claw back excessive funds from money-hoarding schools
TES
26/03/2010
Heads and Councils must clamp down on large cash savings.
Schools should take more bad parents to court, says schools minister
Guardian
31/03/2010
Vernon Coaker urged headteachers to issue court orders compelling parents to improve their children's behaviour
Smacking to be outlawed in all schools
Guardian
30/03/2010
The government promises to close a legal loophole that means it is still legal for private tutors and teachers in Sunday schools and madrasas to smack pupils
Teachers can use physical restraint, says Ed Balls
Guardian
05/04/2010
Schools should not insist on a no-contact policy – physical force can be used to stop disruptive behaviour
Teachers' union threatens strike ballot
Guardian
05/04/2010
NUT conference votes to ballot for walkout with other public sector staff if ministers cut services or freeze pay and pensions
