…absorb HEFCE’s regulatory role and provide quality assurance. Sensibly, it will not take over the creaky behemoth that is the Student Loans Company, and the department itself wants to change…
Higher earnings
…with efforts to improve their public perception. Partly, this will come naturally as apprenticeship quality improves, but the government could go further, tasking the Careers and Enterprise Company with ensuring…
Hiding in plain sight
…industrial painters and at call-centres. Many have been looking for months, if not years, for paid employment. Compared with much of continental Europe, Britain is doing quite well. Last year…
Three in four academy chains have ‘coasting schools’, but best chains continue to ‘transform’ pupils’ life chances
…measures compiled in the index. Other smaller successful chains based on this overall measure include Outwood Grange in Yorkshire, academies sponsored by the Mercers Company in the West Midlands and…
Tiger Mum who admits she spent £2,000 a MONTH on tutors for her son
…for primary-age children. ….. One in four families in Britain has hired a tutor, according to research by education charity Sutton Trust. Will Orr-Ewing, who owns a tutoring company, told…
Firms are offered interns on half the minimum wage
…group has claimed, as it emerged that one recruitment company is offering firms the chance to employ interns to fill permanent roles at “half the cost of employing people through…