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Minister declines to budge on profit-making
02/09/2010
School trusts should not be allowed to make a profit, an education minister has told the CBI.
CBI calls for resurrection of Labour 'accredited provider' policy
02/09/2010
The government should do more to explain how businesses can work with schools, the CBI has said.
Imperial to open Singapore campus
01/09/2010
Imperial College London (ICL) is to team up with a university in Singapore to open a new medical school.
Union trumpets academy 'failure'
01/09/2010
The government has misjudged the public mood and exaggerated the benefits of academies, a leading teaching union has claimed.
Gove to announce just 30 new academies
31/08/2010
Only 30 schools of the hundreds predicted by ministers will become academies in time for the new academic year, according to press reports.
Outgoing Ofsted chair backs profit-making academies
31/08/2010
Private firms should be able to make money from running state schools, the outgoing chair of Osted has said.
Unite moves into black
26/08/2010
Student accommodation provider Unite has posted a profit for the first half of 2010, after losing cash last year.
Public spending crunch hits firms
25/08/2010
The number of insolvencies among companies working with the public sector has risen by nearly a half in just a year, new figures have shown.
Ulster sitting on £350 million school underspend
25/08/2010
The Northern Irish authorities are sitting on nearly £350 million that had been earmarked for school building, the country’s auditors have said.
Promethean shares plummet despite profit growth
24/08/2010
Whiteboard manufacturer Promethean has seen its share price plummet on the back of fears over public sector spending cuts.
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Mountain to climb
Even with a Tory as education secretary, it could be an uphill battle to deliver the new free schools
The Conservative party’s plans to create independent state schools has caused something of a stir. Whether it was teachers and Tories coming to fisticuffs at hustings or party spokesmen doing it on Newsnight, for the last few months the issue has been inescapable.
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A numbers game
The market for private schools hasn’t collapsed. But it will change
Of all the government’s capital expenditure programmes, perhaps only Building Schools for the Future has had a good financial crisis.
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The colour of money
EducationInvestor finds out where venture capitalists may park their money over the next few years
Private equity, let’s be frank, has a bit of an image problem. The industry is a broad church, encompassing everything from angel investors to the giant asset-stripping leveraged buyout firms. The public, though, tend only to see the latter. German politician Franz Müntefering was speaking for many when, in 2004, he damned the whole private equity community as nothing short of locusts.
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