Friday
EIS hustings: ‘What Scottish schools need is more money’
But where will it come from? From VAT on private school fees to calls for independence – here’s what the main political parties had to say
Trust capacity grants fall £33m short of bids
Leaders say they have to ‘significantly scale back’ growth plans due to widening shortfalls in capacity funding allocations as revealed by Tes
Wednesday
Schools ‘in the dark’ over budgets after manifesto pledges
None of the main parties’ election manifestos offer ‘significant extra levels of core funding to help schools’ meet their financial challenges, IFS warns
PFI contracts must be tackled to ease funding woes
The next government should take action over expensive private finance initiative contracts costing schools millions, writes this headteacher
DfE ‘robs’ schools of £1.9bn for crumbling buildings, say unions
School Cuts coalition calculates schools could have an extra £36,000 each on average if the DfE distributed unspent capital funds
Thursday
Weekly round-up: The education battle lines are drawn
Tes’ essential education news round-up includes the three main political parties setting out their policies for schools ahead of next month’s election
Funding crisis ‘will increase class sizes’ in most schools
One head in an ASCL poll warns that the only thing left to cut is teaching staff after ‘paring everything back to the bone’
