Nearly 90% of universities had to delay new innovation-driven projects in lockdown, according to survey of UK universities
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to many universities’ activities that help to drive innovation in the economy...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
Government must get a grip on further education sector, with nearly half of all colleges in financial special measures, Say MPs
The financial health of the college sector has been a cause for concern for many years...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
IFS: 1.5 million currently excluded from claiming SEISS could easily be supported by government at modest cost
The government has provided huge amounts of financial support to working people since the start of the pandemic...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
ASCL comment on Generation Z mental health report
Commenting on the report by the Education Policy Institute and The Prince’s Trust on the mental health and wellbeing of Generation Z, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
ASCL responds to PAC report on college finances
Responding to the report of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on the financial sustainability of colleges...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
New funding boost to get young people get into work
Employers can now apply for a £1000 cash boost to help them take on new trainees, Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, Gillian Keegan has announced today...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
Labour responds to reports about plans for hotel quarantine
Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to reports that Boris Johnson has rejected calls by Priti Patel for a temporary closure of the borders...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:32
Labour calls for ‘wartime juries’ to clear backlog of criminal cases
Labour is calling on the government to temporarily reduce the size of juries from 12 to seven, alongside speeding up the roll-out of Nightingale courts...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:30
UN chief calls for urgent action against neo-Nazis in Holocaust remembrance message
More must be done to thwart neo-Nazis and white supremacists who are using the COVID-19 pandemic to target minorities, increase their ranks and re-write history...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:26
Normalisation should help deliver Israeli-Palestinian peace, says Ambassador Woodward
Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council briefing on the Middle East...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:18