Universities should be required to justify the “exceptional” salaries given to vice-chancellors, Jo Johnson will say today. 

Jeremy Corbyn never promised to cancel student debt if he becomes Prime Minister, his spokesman has insisted.

Theresa May has called on Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for “misleading” students about the number of disadvantaged youngsters applying to university.

Labour will press the Government on its plans to increase tuition fees above £9,000 after being granted an emergency debate tomorrow afternoon. 

Ministers have been accused of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" after it emerged the education budget will be raided to free up an extra £1.3bn for schools.

If this new funding comes from more cuts then the quality of children's services will continue to suffer.

The number of students applying to British universities in 2017 fell by 4% compared to last year, according to figures from admissions service Ucas.

Celebration day held for Airbus Foundation Flying Challenge students.

Grammar schools should lose funding if they fail to boost the number of pupils from low-income families, the former Shadow Education Secretary has warned.

Ahead of her debate on Government policies on social mobility, Lucy Powell MP writes for PoliticsHome saying, "measures to tackle genuine social mobility would find welcome agreement across the House of Commons."

Teachers will receive another below-inflation pay rise this year after the Government insisted on maintaining its 1% cap on public sector salaries.

Jeremy Corbyn was wrong to say fewer disadvantaged young people are applying for university since the introduction of fees, his Shadow Education Secretary admitted today.

Tuition fess should be scrapped as they have become “politically diseased” according to the former Government minister who introduced them.

The Conservative position on tuition fees was thrown into doubt again today when a minister said the Government was considering how to respond to criticisms of the system.  

Three quarters of students will not repay the full amount they borrowed for tuition fees and graduates from poorer backgrounds will face the biggest debt burden, according to new research. 

Ministers have announced they are ditching the Conservatives' election policy of scrapping free school meals for primary school pupils.

Universities and Science Minister confirms that the government is investing £100 million to attract highly skilled researchers to the UK.

The Tories are not considering a rethink of university tuition, Michael Gove has made clear. 

Top Conservative minister Damian Green has said there needs to be a “national debate” on tuition fees after the popularity of Labour’s manifesto pledge to scrap university charges. 

One of the architects of the introduction of tuition fees has predicted both major political parties will support their abolition by the time of the next election.

Listening to both Chancellor Philip Hammond’s somewhat gloomy Mansion House speech and the Queen’s Speech this week, we are reminded of the extent to which skills has risen-up the political agenda in the last couple of years and the opportunities this presents for the FE and skills sector.

The IET is delighted to announce that titles in its journal portfolio have seen a significant increase in their impact factor rating in the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR). On average, impact factors across all eligible titles have increased by 45%.

Justine Greening keeps her role as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities following this week’s post-election reshuffle.

A Supreme Court ruling issued today, in relation to industrial action which occurred in 2011 at King Edward VI College in Stourbridge, has vindicated the NASUWT’s claim that the formula used by the employer to make the pay deductions for the strike action was wrong.