Funding
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May- 2025 -28 May
IFS warns education budget cuts could undermine schools and colleges
The Department for Education in England could face a £2.6bn cut by 2028-29 if treated like other unprotected budgets, potentially reducing school and college funding amid growing challenges, the IFS has said. According to a new report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, protecting schools and the 16-19 education budget would…
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22 May
DfE accepts 4% pay rise for teachers
The government has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation of a 4% pay rise for teachers from September 2025, alongside an additional £615m in funding. However, the Department for Education (DfE) confirmed that schools will still have to fund around 1% of the increase themselves, which it said could…
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21 May
Billions of school funding funnelled into private companies, NASUWT finds
Billions of pounds intended for education are being siphoned away from frontline teaching and funnelled into private companies and agencies leaving schools struggling, a new report has revealed. New findings from NASUWT Teachers’ Union exposed a pattern of financial mismanagement, excessive executive pay, and profiteering in SEND provision, supply teacher…
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20 May
OfS cuts ‘catastrophic’, says UCU
The University and College Union (UCU) has called the latest government cuts to higher education as “catastrophic”. The union was responding to the slashing of the Office for Students’ strategic priorities grant and capital funding. The news comes as the Department for Education has provided The Office for Students (OfS)…
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20 May
Impact of VAT on fees ‘worse’ than predicted, says ISC
The number of pupils at independent schools has fallen by more than 13,000 in a year, according to the Independent School Council’s (ISC) latest annual census.Data from the ISC’s annual census shows that the like-for-like number of pupils dropped from 551,578 to 538,215 in the year to January. This marks…
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12 May
Govt to up funded childcare to 30 hours a week from September
The government has announced that, from today (12 May), all eligible working parents of children who will be nine months old before 1 September can apply to access up to 30 hours of funded childcare a week, which is estimated to save them up to £7,500 a year per child. …
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9 May
Derby’s investment in SEND provision moves into next phase
Derby City Council has put in motion a programme which will deliver 400 additional specialist places in the city’s schools over the next two years, as the council aims to improve and expand educational provision in the city for children and young people with SEND. It comes as the council…
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