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Real-terms funding per pupil at 2010 levels, teacher pay at 2001 levels, and building investment 25% below mid-2000sSpending on each schoolchild’s education in England has suffered an unprecedented 14-year-freeze since the Conservatives came to power, according to Britain’s leading economics thinktank.Funding per pupil is now at 2010 levels in real terms, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said in its latest analysis of school spending, while teacher pay was at about the same real-terms level as in 2001. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/04/english-pupil-funding-at-same-level-as-when-tories-took-power-study-finds Author : Sally Weale Education correspondent Publish date : 2024-06-04 01:01:09 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

NDIS minister says Julianne Stewart does a ‘very good job’ but he did not negotiate deal. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWe reported yesterday that more than one-third of employment providers, who are tasked with helping unemployed Australians find work, are failing to meet the government’s own performance measures.Last night, the Department of Employment Workplace Relations was asked how many low ratings a provider has to receive before they lose contracts. The department said it has developed a ‘licence review process’, but has not implemented it yet. Continue reading...

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse tells Guardian ‘quid pro quo is very evident’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in AprilDonald Trump’s brazen pitch to 20 fossil-fuel heads for $1bn to aid his presidential campaign in return for promises of lucrative tax and regulatory favors is the “definition of corruption”, a top Democrat investigating the issue has said.“It certainly meets the definition of corruption as the founding fathers would have used the term,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said in an interview about Trump’s audacious $1bn request for big checks to top fossil-fuel executives that took place in April at his Mar-a-Lago club. Continue reading...

Former Ukip chief says election ‘needs a bit of gingering up’Nigel Farage to stand for Reform UK in general election after U-turnSign up for the general election newsletterKeir Starmer will be speaking shortly on defence and security. The Labour leader is expected to reaffirm his commitment to a “triple lock” for the UK’s nuclear deterrent, and his aim to raise defence spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product “as soon as resources allow”.Labour’s nuclear deterrent triple lock includes a commitment to construct four new nuclear submarines in Barrow-in-Furness, maintaining Britain’s continuous at-sea deterrent, and the delivery of all future upgrades