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• Income

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  This section provides information on income for schools.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 9 April 2025

  09-04-2025 14:50 via gov.uk
  
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Former principal to head Dundee University taskforce

  08-04-2025 13:01 via bbc.com
  
  The financially-stricken institution faces cutting 700 jobs to tackle a £35m black hole
  
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• Decision: FE Commissioner intervention: Weston College of Further and Higher Education 2025

  08-04-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  FE Commissioner's intervention report summary on Weston College of Further and Higher Education.
  
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• 'We never imagined our daughter could be killed at nursery - we want greater safeguards'

  07-04-2025 08:02 via bbc.com
  Parents of nine-month-old who died at a nursery call for stronger safeguarding measures.
  
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• Strike ballot over 'unnecessary' university cuts

  07-04-2025 07:19 via bbc.com
  The University of Edinburgh is cutting £140m from its budget, which a union describes as a "manufactured crisis".
  
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• Trump is targeting US universities as never before. Here are four ways to help them | Cas Mudde

  07-04-2025 06:00
  
  Supporters in Europe can offer new opportunities and minimise the isolation. Certainly they can avoid making things worseUniversities in the US are under attack. While the Trump administration pretends to punish them for their alleged compliance with or support for “antisemitism” (ie pro-Gaza demonstrations) and “anti-white racism” (ie diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives), the real targets are academic freedom and freedom of speech. Going after the most prominent
  
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• Northern Ireland’s public services ‘at risk of collapse’

  07-04-2025 06:00
  
  Hospital waiting lists among worst in UK and children with special needs waiting a year for support, report findsNorthern Ireland’s public services, including hospitals, schools and police, are being “crippled” by lack of funding, impinging on the quality of life for many people, a report by a government committee has concluded.The Northern Ireland select committee found patients waiting more than 12 hours to be seen in accident and emergency departments and mental health needs
  
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• Experts say White House’s rehoming of student loan program will put borrowers at risk

  06-04-2025 12:00
  Trump announced loan program will be moved from Department of Education to Small Business AdministrationThe Trump administration’s rehoming of the federal student loan program is putting student borrowers at a higher risk of defaulting on their loans and may not save the government the money that it is claiming it will, experts say.After the president vowed to dismantle the education department and make student loans a part of the Small Business Administration, student financial aid groups
  
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• ‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

  05-04-2025 12:35
  Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of TroyShe lived around 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon
  
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• 'If our daughter was screened at birth she could have been treated'

  05-04-2025 07:11 via bbc.com
  Sean and Emily Stock say they never want another family to face what they have had to.
  
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• US supreme court allows Trump administration to freeze teacher-training grants

  04-04-2025 23:59
  Millions in grants that would promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives may be frozen following rulingThe US supreme court is letting the Trump administration temporarily freeze $65m in teacher-training grants that would promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in a 5-4 decision.The decision came down on Friday afternoon, with five of the court’s conservatives – Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh &nda
  
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• US teacher resigns after anti-trans attacks: ‘I’m a human with the same rights as anybody else’

  04-04-2025 17:49
  Rosie Sandri says she wanted to prioritize students’ safety after receiving hateful comments, including death threatsA trans teacher at a Texas high school has resigned after becoming the target of conservative backlash and online attacks.Rosie Sandri came out as a trans woman about seven months ago. Her colleagues at Red Oak high school and the Red Oak independent school district were very supportive, she recalled to NBC News. Continue reading...
  
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• 16 to 19 education: financial support for students

  04-04-2025 16:12 via gov.uk
  
  Advice for institutions on the financial support young people may be able to access to help them participate in education and training.
  
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• Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety university will capitulate to Trump

  04-04-2025 13:00
  Harvard weighs costs of standing up to president as other elite schools, such as Princeton, signal they won’t concedeThe day after the Trump administration announced a review of $9bn in federal contracts and grants with Harvard University due to what it claimed was the university’s failure to combat antisemitism on campus, the university’s president, Alan Garber, sent an email to the Harvard community titled: Our resolve.“When we saw the Garber statement’s subject l
  
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• We should celebrate Labour’s good news on nurseries – but it needs to be bolder | Polly Toynbee

  04-04-2025 11:05
  Funding schools to set up nurseries works. Why spend more on older children, when we know spending earlier is most effective?Despite the rampaging rogue state across the Atlantic, around the cabinet table ministers push on with their plans. Too often ignored in all this sound and fury, there is some good news. This week Bridget Phillipson awarded the first 300 primary schools funding to set up nurseries that will add up to 4,000 places by the end of September. In the great dash for growth, growt
  
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• Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds

  04-04-2025 06:00
  Study finds larger drop-off among girls aged 13-14 who feel safe than among boys, compared with age group in 2019Girls in England say they feel less safe at school and are more disenchanted with their education, research has found.Using data from an international study of pupils at primary and secondary schools, researchers said the steep fall in girls’ “emotional engagement” compared with the years before the Covid pandemic has become a pressing issue for schools. Continue rea
  
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• Dundee University staff to be balloted over strike action

  03-04-2025 19:04 via bbc.com
  Up to 700 jobs at the University could be cut in a bid to tackle a £35m deficit.
  
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• Cardiff Met says job cuts needed to reduce costs

  03-04-2025 17:33 via bbc.com
  It says "difficult decisions" are needed and follows moves by other universities to reduce staffing.
  
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• Spotlight for 2025 to 2026

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  Details of the key areas we would like to highlight.
  
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• Schools open for part of the financial year

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  Instructions for where schools are only open for part of the financial year.
  
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• Schools holding money on behalf of other schools

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  Information on where schools hold money on behalf of other schools.
  
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• Introduction

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  About this guidance.
  
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• Federated schools receiving a single budget share

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  Information where schools are federated and receive a single budget share from the local authority.
  
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• Expenditure

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  This section provides information on expenditure for schools.
  
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• Data items used in the collection

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  Table of guidance about some of the data items we use.
  
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• Consistent financial reporting framework 2025 to 2026

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance to help schools collect information about their income and expenditure.
  
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• Capital income 

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  This section provides information on capital income for schools.
  
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• Capital expenditure

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  This section provides information on capital expenditure for schools.
  
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• Balances 

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  This section provides information on balances for schools.
  
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