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Lack of funding for colleges could lead to skills emergency, warn chiefs

Scotland risks “sliding into a skills emergency” unless more cash can be found for colleges, leaders in the sector have insisted. Scottish Government budget plans for the coming year will cut the equivalent of more than £50 million from the sector, ...

25 Jan 2022 at 01:26

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Donegal Travellers Project awarded a three-year funding package

The Donegal Travellers Project is one of just four projects nationally to be awarded a three-year funding package from Rethink Ireland to tackle education disadvantages among Traveller and Roma children and young people in the county. The €1.25 ...

04 Oct 2022 at 13:33

Hunt pledges £4.6bn more for schools, saying good education is ‘moral mission’

Billions more will be invested in schools in England over the next two years, the Chancellor has announced as he described ensuring a good education for children as an economic and moral mission. Jeremy Hunt said the Government will invest an ...

17 Nov 2022 at 16:48

Government delays expectation for schools in England to run 32.5 hour week

The Government’s plan for all state schools to deliver at least a 32.5 hour week has been pushed back by a year. The Schools White Paper, published in March 2022, set out an expectation that schools should be open for at least 32.5 hours a ...

17 Jul 2023 at 12:57

Formal review ordered after DfE apologises for schools funding error

The Government has ordered an inquiry and the Department for Education (DfE) has apologised after it miscalculated its funding plans for the next academic year. The DfE’s top official, permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood, said in a ...

07 Oct 2023 at 03:02

Reeves announces funding for crumbling schools and childcare ahead of Budget

Rachel Reeves has announced £1.4 billion to rebuild crumbling schools and a tripling of investment in free breakfast clubs as part of her first Budget. The Chancellor said children “should not suffer for” the dire state of the UK’s ...

27 Oct 2024 at 00:01

Scotland

Councils will not get £145m to boost teacher numbers

Councils will not get £145.5 million in funding intended to increase teacher numbers from the Scottish Government amid a row over how it will be spent. The cash – a share of which would be given to all local authorities – was ...

11 Oct 2024 at 15:50

Northern Ireland

Suggestion schools will not accommodate SEN children ‘profoundly insulting’

Any suggestion that some schools in Northern Ireland have been unwilling to accommodate children with special educational needs (SEN) is “profoundly insulting”, a union leader has said. Graham Gault, national secretary of ...

15 Sept 2025 at 14:33

Further education sector left to run on fumes, MPs say

The further education (FE) sector has been “left to run on fumes”, MPs have warned, as they call for more funding and action to tackle “stagnant” pay. The Commons Education Select Committee has also said the policy that ...

23 Sept 2025 at 00:01

International student levy could lead to £1.8bn loss in first year, report warns

The Government’s proposed international student levy could mean a £1.8 billion loss to the economy in the first year alone, analysis has suggested. A report by policy consultancy Public First has estimated nine out of ...

26 Sept 2025 at 00:01

Burden placed on teachers has ‘never been higher’, union warns

The burden placed on school and college leaders and teachers has “never been higher”, a teaching union has warned. Schools are having to run food banks and support families with housing as under-funded wider public ...

02 Sept 2025 at 00:01

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Eastwood welcomes stopping of planned cuts to youth services and early years programmes

The stopping of proposed cuts to youth services and a range of early years programmes by the Department of Education has been welcomed by SDLP leader Colum Eastwood. The Foyle MP said: "The planned cuts to youth ...

01 Jun 2023 at 13:33

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