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Jan 30 2012
Total spend across maintained schools in England on ICT Learning Resource and ICT Hardware/Software: 2002-03 to 2009-10
Dec 8 2011
Average number of pupils in state primary and secondary schools, 2002-2011.
Dec 1 2011
Average class size in state-funded primary and secondary schools (England) in January each year 2009-11.
Dec 1 2011
Number of state schools (mainstream only) having closed in each year since 2000.
Sep 9 2011
Average class sizes in state secondary and primary schools, 2010 and 2011.
Jul 4 2011
Numbers of librarians in schools, November 2010, England
Jun 14 2011
Number of mainstream and SEN schools built through Building Schools for the Future and Academies programme 2006-11.
Jun 7 2011
Capital funding spent by DfE per pupil (aged 3-19) in real terms for schools in England since 2004-05.
Apr 26 2011
Full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants and support staff in further education/sixth form colleges and publicly funded schools, England, 2004 - 10
Mar 28 2011
Cost of insurance in maintained schools, 2008/9
Mar 22 2011
Departmental funding allocations for children's programmes in 2008-09, 2009-10-and 2010-11.
Mar 22 2011
Number of sixth form colleges which undertook capital works of a monetary value of more than £1 million , 2001 - 10
Mar 18 2011
Pupil:adult ratios in local authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, 2010, England
Mar 10 2011
Pupil:teacher ratio in local authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools ,England, January 2010.
Mar 7 2011
Funding for Every Child a Reader scheme,2010/11
Feb 28 2011
Number and proportion of primary and secondary schools with class sizes of over 30 pupils in each local authority area.
Feb 7 2011
Number of children who have received books from the Booked Up scheme in England, 2007 - 10
Feb 7 2011
Number of children who have received books from the Bookstart scheme in England, 2004 - 10
Feb 7 2011
Number of children who have received books from the Booktime scheme in England, 2007 - 10
Feb 3 2011
Budget spend per school pupil, 2009-10 and 2010-11
Feb 1 2011
Number of academies currently operating on split sites
Jan 19 2011
Proportion of the pupil premium funds to be allocated to (a) urban and (b) rural areas
Jan 19 2011
Number of pupils attending secondary schools in which there were over (a) 1,000, (b) 1,500 and (c) 2,000 pupils in 2010
Jan 17 2011
Full-time teacher vacancies in local authority maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools in England in each January, 1979 to 2010.
Jan 11 2011
Number of surplus places available at schools in England, 2010
Dec 16 2010
Funding allocated to the school linking network programme since October 2007; and how many projects in each local authority area have received assistance from that programme
Nov 3 2010
Funding allocated for School Travel Advisers, 2010-2011
Oct 28 2010
Funding given per pupil at each academy school, 2005/06 to 2009/20.
Oct 27 2010
The average cost to the public purse of a) the refurbishment of a school and b) a new build school under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.
Oct 21 2010
Estimated spending on the Building Schools for the Future programme for 2011 to 2015.
Oct 11 2010
Criteria used to decide which proposed projects should not received Building Schools for the Future funding.
Sep 8 2010
Average teacher to pupil ratio, England, 2005 - 10
Sep 7 2010
Number of children attending schools which have been rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future programme in England
Jul 7 2010
Local authorities which have no secondary schools with sixth forms
Mar 30 2010
Number of Sure Start children's centres in each region and local authority area, 2009 - 10
Mar 29 2010
Total cost to each local education partnership of all completed major building projects within the Building Schools for the Future programme
Mar 29 2010
Allocation of funds to local authorities to widen access to instrumental and vocal tuition for primary school pupils through standard fund music grant
Mar 25 2010
Number of surplus places in maintained secondary schools between 2005 and 2009
Mar 24 2010
Budget for placements including support and resources secured for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities at independent specialist providers, 2009 - 11
Mar 18 2010
Number of schools for pupils with special educational needs which have opened and closed in England between 1997 and 2009
Mar 16 2010
Number and cost of fires reported in schools, England and Wales, 2000 - 07
Mar 16 2010
Pupil:adult ratios for local authority maintained secondary schools, England
Mar 15 2010
Local authorities which have and have not yet reached financial close in the Building Schools for the Future programme.
Mar 15 2010
Amount spent by the Department on School Improvement Partners, 2009 - 10
Mar 12 2010
Capital cost and cost per square metre of Building Schools for the Future project
Mar 8 2010
Number of academies and their achievements, 2008 and 2009
Mar 5 2010
Average staff to pupil ratio in secondary schools, England, 2009
Mar 3 2010
Number of maintained primary schools with over 800 pupils, 1997 and 2009, England
Mar 2 2010
Allocation of funding to the Building Schools for the Future programme, 2005 - 2010, and which schools in England have received funding from the Building Schools for the Future programme
Mar 2 2010
Number of pupils receiving one-to-one or small group tuition in (a) secondary and (b) primary schools, 2009 - 2011
Mar 1 2010
Average staff pupil ratio in secondary schools in England, Jan 2009
Feb 24 2010
Number of pupils in maintained primary schools by size of school, January 2009
Feb 24 2010
Number of schools that have been remodelled, refurbished and rebuilt by the Building Schools for the Future initiative
Feb 22 2010
Projection of the number of pupils in full time primary eductaion 2010 - 2017
Feb 2 2010
Number of pupils being taught in schools of more than 400, 500, 600 and 700 in 1997 and 2003
Jan 25 2010
Local authority spend on IT procurement for schools, 2009/10
Jan 25 2010
Average staff to pupil ratio in secondary schools, 2009, England
Jan 19 2010
Government investment in outdoor play areas in educational establishments for children of all ages
Jan 13 2010
Number of maintained nurseries that have closed, with reasons, 2005 - 08
Jan 7 2010
Number of primary and secondary schools opened and closed in each region 1997 - 2009
Jan 5 2010
Local authorities which have received no funding under the Building Schools for the Future programme
Dec 15 2009
School science accommodation in the Building Schools for the Future programme
Dec 15 2009
Government support for local authorities to plan and deliver their children's centre programmes, 2006 -11
Dec 15 2009
Number of rural primary and secondary schools opened , 2000- 09
Dec 3 2009
Home access grant to provide financial assistance to low income families for a computer
Dec 3 2009
Number of all-Muslim girls', boys' and mixed sex boarding schools in England, 2009
Nov 24 2009
Number of schools that have been refurbished through the Building Schools for the Future programme,
Nov 12 2009
Number of pupil referral units in each local authority which closed since 2004 and had never been inspected by Ofsted.
Nov 9 2009
Number of primary schools with more than (a) 400 (b) 500 © 600 and (d) 700 pupils, broken down by region, in 2009.
Nov 9 2009
Number of seconday schools in each region of England, broken down by number of pupils, 2009.
Oct 29 2009
Average size of (a) primary and (b) maintained secondary school classes in (i) 1997, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2005 (iv) 2009.
Oct 29 2009
Number of pupils being taught in primary schools with over 800 pupils in 1997 and 2009.
Oct 29 2009
Number of secondary schools with more than 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 and 2,500 pupils there were in 1997 and 2009.
Oct 16 2009
Number of classes with 30 or more pupils in i) Key Stage 1 classes ii) maintained primary school classes and iii) state funded secondary schools classes, broken down by local auhority area, 2008.
Oct 12 2009
Number of single-sex maintained i) primary and ii) secondary schools, 1997 - 2009.
Oct 5 2009
Numbers of school closures, and their reason for closure in each year since 1999.
Jul 14 2009
Maintained nursery, primary, state-funded secondary and maintained special schools, by number fo pupils, as at January 2009.
Jul 9 2009
Number of primary school pupils in classes of 20-25 students and 26-30 students, January 2009.
Jul 7 2009
Local education authorities that have made sucessful applications to the Building Schools for the Future programme, and the funding awarded.
Jun 24 2009
Capital funding provided to each Building Schools for the Futures project completed in 2008. .
Jun 24 2009
Number of maintained (a) primary and (b) secondary schools operating entirely from pre-1919 buildings
Jun 16 2009
Number of academies established in 2008 - 09
Jun 15 2009
School capital funding allocations to schools and to 121 local authorities brought forward from 2010-11 to 2009-10.
Jun 3 2009
Number of Key Stage 1 children in classes in maintained primary schools, Jan 2009
May 21 2009
Expected date for the launch of Schools Recruitment Service, and reasons for delays.
May 19 2009
Estimated number of pupils in maintained primary schools 2009-2017.
May 18 2009
Estimates of the increase in primary school pupils from 2008/09 to 2011/12.
May 15 2009
Average class sizes in 2008, by local authority.
May 13 2009
Number of maintained secondary schools of each type in England.
May 5 2009
Funds allocated to colleges to support building projects, 2008-2011.
Apr 30 2009
Average cost of building a primary school.
Apr 28 2009
List of further education colleges that have merged since 1997.
Apr 28 2009
Government budgets for investment in schools over the next three years.
Apr 22 2009
Nuber and names of Pupil Referral Units opened and closed in 2008.
Apr 2 2009
Average cost per year incurred by Ofsted by responding to complaints from schools.
Apr 2 2009
The England average and local education authorities with the (i) highest and (ii) lowest per pupil revenue funding figures, 2008-09.
Mar 24 2009
Technical Strategy Board funding for new low impact building programmes, 2008 - 09
Mar 17 2009
Building Schools for the Future programme - local education authorities that (a) have commenced projects under the Building Schools for the Future programme, (b) have been given approval for schemes but have yet to start and (c) have not been given approval for schemes
Mar 12 2009
Change in number of funding decisions originally planned to be made in financial year 2008-09 by the Learning and Skills Council relating to university projects
Mar 12 2009
Funding for capital projects in further education in 2009-10
Mar 5 2009
Delivery record for each school in Building Schools for the Future programme, 2007 - 09
Mar 4 2009
Number of secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) urban areas closed, 2000 - 08
Mar 3 2009
Amount spent on the Electronic Learning and Mobility Programme, and the provision of laptops to students, 2008
Mar 3 2009
Average length of a school private finance initiative contract, 2001 - 08
Mar 3 2009
Number of new Sure Start centres designated in each month in (a) 2007 and (b) 2006.
Feb 27 2009
Maintained special schools opening in 2008
Feb 26 2009
Number and percentage of Key Stage 1 pupils by size of class, 2008
Feb 26 2009
Number of primary schools in (a) rural and (b) urban areas that have closed , 2000 - 08, and number of small schools that have closed, by local authority, 2002 - 08
Feb 26 2009
Amount of revenue funding allocated by local authorities in England to maintained primary and secondary schools, 2001 - 09
Feb 26 2009
Expenditure by schools on water and sewerage, 2007 - 08
Feb 26 2009
Total capital expenditure in Further Education colleges, 1997 - 2008
Feb 10 2009
Total capital expenditure in further education colleges in England ,1999 - 2011
Feb 10 2009
Number of specialist schools for music, 2006 - 08
Feb 9 2009
Capital budget for rebuilding colleges for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11
Feb 9 2009
Funding allocated spent as part of the PE and Sport Strategy 2003 - 11
Feb 9 2009
Class sizes in maintained primary schools , 2008, England
Feb 9 2009
DCFS spending on sustainable schools, 2006 - 09
Feb 5 2009
Capital expenditure for the Building Colleges for the Future programme, from 1997
Feb 5 2009
Funding for musical instruments in schools, 2007 - 09
Feb 4 2009
Allocations regarding the total of the major school capital programmes to each local authority area, 1998-99 to 2007-08
Feb 4 2009
Spending on (a) primary and (b) secondary school buildings in each local authority area in England, 1998 - 2008
Jan 29 2009
Availability of data regarding energy efficiency of schools.
Jan 28 2009
Availability of Key Stage 3 mathematics lesson materials.
Jan 28 2009
Number of secondary schools in England, as of January 2009.
Jan 27 2009
The total expenditure on further education colleges in England, 1997-98 to 2007-08.
Jan 27 2009
Table showing the schools that have been constructed and opened under the Building Schools for the Future programme; and which opened on time and on budget.
Jan 27 2009
Number of maintained special schools that were opened and closed in the academic year 2007-08.
Jan 19 2009
Estimates of the number of new schools being opened, 2008-2011, due to the Building Schools for the Future programme, the Learning and Skills Council’s capital programme and Primary Capital Programme.
Dec 16 2008
Full-time equivalent teachers , teaching assistants and support staff in local authority maintained schools, : 1997 and 2008 , England
Dec 11 2008
Total capital allocations for school building upgrade and rebuilding in England, 1996 - 97.
Nov 25 2008
Number of pupils in academies in 2008 - 09
Nov 25 2008
Number of pupils in the schools to be rebuilt or refurbished in Building Schools for the Future programme
Nov 25 2008
Number of chool playing fields accessible to young people outside school hours
Nov 25 2008
Number of pupils by size of school in state funded secondary schools, 1997 - 2008
Nov 25 2008
Number of full-time equivalent teachers and teaching assistants in local education authority schools in England, 1997 - 2008
Nov 24 2008
Total debt levels relating to buildings of FE colleges between 2001 to 2007
Nov 5 2008
Number of schools for pupils with special needs opened and closed in England since 1997.
Nov 4 2008
Number of pupils being taught in primary schools with over 800 pupils in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008.
Sep 1 2008
Number of academy schools in England, and which local education authority has the highest number of academy schools.
Jul 21 2008
Percentage of GCSE results at grade A* to C achieved by schools that have had (a) full and (b) partial refurbishment under the Building Schools for the Future programme, 2003 -07
Jul 17 2008
How much the Department spent on implementation of (a) the Healthy Schools initiative and (b) the Sustainable Schools framework 2004 - 08
Jul 15 2008
How much has been allocated to each school under the Building Schools for the Future programme to date, 2008
Jul 15 2008
Average class size in primary schools in England and Wales in each of the last five years
Jul 15 2008
Percentage of key stage 1 and 2 pupils receiving specialist instrumental and vocal tuition within maintained schools, 2001/2, 2004/5, 2006/7
Jul 7 2008
Average class size in each secondary academy school
Jul 7 2008
Local authorities who are participating in the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how many schools in each participating authority are scheduled for (a) refurbishment and (b) replacement.
Jun 11 2008
Number of schools that have applied for grants under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme, 2006 -2008
Jun 2 2008
Amount of funding available during the 2007-08 Session to refurbish schools with (a) low carbon and (b) sustainable energy systems
Apr 30 2008
How many construction projects the DCFS undertook for which the capital cost was greater than £1.5 million; 2005 - 08
Apr 30 2008
Percentage of pupil referral units offering two hours of physical exercise every week.
Apr 30 2008
Number of trust schools established under the provisions of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
Apr 29 2008
Funding to improve playgrounds in each year from 2008-09 to 2011-12;
Apr 28 2008
How much (a) water and (b) electricity used by schools in (i) 2001 - 2007
Apr 23 2008
Expenditure by local authority maintained schools on water and sewerage , 2002 - 7
Apr 22 2008
Government funding provided to the School Playgrounds Scheme , 2001 - 7
Apr 21 2008
How many primary school classes of over (a) 25 and (b) 20 pupils , Jan 2007
Apr 1 2008
How much funding has been allocated under the Building Schools for the Future programme, in each local authority and broken down by parliamentary constituency. [
Mar 31 2008
Number of temporarily filled full-time head teacher posts in local authority maintained schools in England, January 1998 to 2007.
Mar 31 2008
How many schools were built and fitted with fire suppression systems in each of the last five years
Mar 31 2008
How many secondary schools will have funding to support small group academic focused study support in 2009-10
Mar 27 2008
Number of schools in England that offered swimming lessons to pupils in each of the last five years
Mar 26 2008
Numbers of applications approved to sell a school playing field in England in the last five years
Mar 17 2008
Capital funding which has been provided to local authorities for schools currently under construction in the Building Schools for the Future programme.
Mar 17 2008
How much of the schools budget was spent on (a) books and learning resources and (b) ICT equipment in the last 12 months for which figures are available
Mar 10 2008
Number of funding agreements for academy schools signed in each month since June 2005.
Mar 10 2008
Schools that are under construction through the Building Schools for the Future programme in each local authority area.
Mar 10 2008
How many schools (a) applied for and (b) were granted powers to innovate in each year since 2002.
Mar 5 2008
Full-time classroom teacher vacancy rates in local authority maintained secondary schools by subject in England 1997 to 2007
Mar 3 2008
Number of children in maintained schools, listed by size of school
Mar 3 2008
Number of schools in each English local authority area that do not have kitchen facilities capable of serving daily hot meals
Feb 20 2008
Number of children of five, six and seven years of age were taught in classes of more than 30 children in 1997 and 2007
Feb 19 2008
Average pupil/teacher ratio in England in each year since 2001
Feb 18 2008
Average class sizes in primary and secondary schools in England in 2006-07
Jan 24 2008
How many year 1 pupils there were in schools in England in each of the last five years.
Jan 17 2008
How many school governing bodies and school sport associations work with competition managers.
Jan 16 2008
Estimate is of the number of academies there will be between 2007-08 and 2020-21
Jan 16 2008
Which academies (a) are and (b) will be sponsored or co-sponsored by universities
Jan 16 2008
Progress made on bringing around 3,500 secondary school buildings up to 21st century standards
Jan 9 2008
Absolute and percentage changes to devolved formula capital grant awarded to modernised schools, 2001/2 to 2007/8
Nov 20 2007
Number of schools in each local education authority area applied for expansion and how many requests were granted in each year since 1999.
Oct 1 2007
Average primary school class size since 1990
Sep 3 2007
Average amount of time a school of each type spent in special measures.
Jul 24 2007
Number of school closures in the last 10 years.
Jul 23 2007
How many schools sold their playing fields in last 10 years
Jul 23 2007
How many new schools were established in England in each year since 1980-81.
Jul 23 2007
How many schools have been built with private finance initiative funding since May 1997.
Jul 23 2007
How many specialist schools in each of the last 10 years.
Jul 16 2007
Number of schools being (a) built and (b) refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how work is funded in each
Jul 16 2007
Proportion of Key Stage 2 pupils in classes of 30 or more
Jul 12 2007
Progress on Building Schools for the Future
Jul 11 2007
Number of schools built or refurbished outside the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in each year since the start of the BSF programme
Jul 11 2007
Average class size in secondary education
Jul 5 2007
Allocated budget for school sport at non-specialist sports colleges.
Jun 26 2007
Amount spent on the provision of sport equipment, the training of teachers in sports-related activities and the recruitment of coaches to provide sports lessons in schools.
May 22 2007
Funding 2010 onwards for reducing carbon emissions in schools
May 9 2007
Departmental spending on software 2003 - 2007
Apr 26 2007
Spending on school buildings 1977 - 2006 -answer follows first one
Mar 12 2007
Planned spending on PFI projects in schools
Mar 6 2007
Funding for schools including new kitchens
Oct 30 2006
Standards of schools Science laboratories and plans for improvements
Jul 17 2006
Class Size- What estimate hav been made of class sizes in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas in each year since 1997?
Feb 6 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Class size - How many primary school classes for five to seven-year-olds contained more than 30 pupils in each of the last five years.
Jan 23 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Class Size- What the average class size was in primary schools in (a) England ….. in each year since 1997.
Jan 23 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Class Sizes 23 Jan 2006 What the average class size is in primary schools in (a) affluent and (b) deprived areas
Jan 9 2006
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Class Size- How many children aged between 11 and 16 years are taught in classes with a pupil-teacher ratio of more than one teacher to (a) 12, (b) 15 and (c) 18 pupils.
Dec 20 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Trust Schools - (1) what arrangements she plans to put in place to dispose of the assets of a trust school if such a school should close; (2) whether assets will be transferred from local authority control to the control of a trust when a trust school is set up.
Oct 25 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Class Sizes: What estimate she has made of the percentage of classes in key stage 1 over the statutory maximum class size of 30; what the percentage was in academic year 2004–05; and if she will make a statement.
Jun 14 2005
Written Answers — Education and Skills: Temporary Classrooms - how many temporary classrooms are in use in each local education authority.
Teachers of English baccalaureate subjects in publicly funded secondary schools to year groups 7 to 13 in 2010, and the proportions with a relevant post A-level qualification in the subject, November 2010, coverage: England

Statistical First Releases

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Jan 24 2012
DfE: National pupil projections - Future trends in pupil numbers - December 2011
Jun 22 2011
Schools, Pupils and their characteristics 2011 (January 2011 school census). Includes figures on Free School Meals and class sizes.
Jun 7 2011
DfE report on school capacity 2009-10.
May 26 2010
DfE: School Workforce in England (including pupil:teacher ratios and pupil:adult ratios), January 2010 (Provisional)
May 13 2010
Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics: January 2010
Mar 18 2010
National Pupil Projections: Future Trends in Pupil Numbers
May 7 2009
DCSF: School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2009 (Provisional)
May 7 2009
DCSF: Schools, Pupils and Their Characteristics: January 2009
Sep 25 2008
DCSF: School Workforce in England (including Local Authority level figures), January 2008 (Revised) This includes data for England covering full time equivalent regular teachers, support staff and teaching assistants, vacancy numbers and rates, sickness absence, ethnicity and pupil: teacher ratios at both national and local authority LA level.
Apr 29 2008
DCSF: School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2008 (Provisional) This includes provisional data from England covering teacher numbers and vacancies, sickness absence and ethnicity
Apr 29 2008
DCSF: Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in Maintained Schools in England: January 2008 (Provisional) This includes provisional data from England covering free school meal eligibility, ethnicity, first language and special education needs together with a range of class size information.
Apr 27 2006
Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in Maintained Schools in England, January 2006 (Provisional). Additional tables have been added for "Local Authority level analyses of pupil characteristics and class sizes in maintained schools in England, January 2006 (Provisional)", and for "Cross Local Authority border movement of school pupils resident in England (primary, secondary, special and sixth form), January 2006 (Provisional)"
Apr 28 2005
Pupil Characteristics and Class Sizes in Maintained Schools in England, January 2005 (Provisional) 

Press Releases

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Nov 3 2011
Ministers are consulting on simplifying and reducing the regulations around school buildings, as part of the independent Capital Review recommendations, which proposed how to build and maintain school buildings better and more cost effectively
Oct 11 2011
Number of new schools approved to open from 2012 onwards.
Mar 29 2010
Funding to help primary and secondary schools become Accredited School Providers or to take part in Accredited Schools Groups programme, 2010 - 11
Mar 18 2010
Number of schools benefitting from Building Schools for the Future programme
Mar 8 2010
Further investment to extend the Building Schools for the Future programme
Dec 22 2009
Acceleration of allocation of capital for local authorities, 2009 - 11
Oct 9 2009
Support schemes for home educated pupils.
Sep 7 2009
New Academy Sponsorship Arrangements, Overall schools capital investment and progress on Building Schools for the Future
Jul 15 2009
Extension of the Building Scools for the Future programme.
Jun 30 2009
Development of four new academies
Mar 3 2009
Acceleration of funding for school building projects, 2008 - 09
Feb 23 2009
New apprenticeships in the NHS, education, local government and Building Schools for the Future programme, 2009 - 10
Feb 11 2009
Government investment to improve school sport facilities in sports colleges, 2009
Feb 4 2009
Government package for cookery teaching and facilities in schools, 2008 -09
Jan 30 2009
Funding for school buildings
Jan 26 2009
Funding for consultancy to support schools spending on resources
Dec 11 2008
National Challenge funding to schools in 85 local authorities
Nov 24 2008
Accelerated introduction of funding for chool modernisation projects , 2009 - 10
Nov 12 2008
Rebuilding and refurbishment projects for primary schools in England
Sep 8 2008
OECD: Educational performance report shows positive at every stage of education
Jun 23 2008
Eight local authorities fast tracked into building schools for the future
Dec 17 2007
First independent evaluation report into Building Schools for the Future published
Dec 14 2007
Number of Trust schools established
Dec 14 2007
£1 billion allocated to fund the 'Children's Plan' over next three years
Nov 12 2007
School funding settlement, 2008 -11
Oct 10 2007
£21.9 billion of capital investment allocations to local authorities to raise standards with state-of-the-art classroom, arts, sports and ICT facilities over the next three years.
Oct 9 2007
£200m boost to modernise primary school buildings
Sep 6 2007
£21 billion cash injection over the next three years to build new schools
Aug 28 2007
7,000 schools now offering access to extended services
Jul 25 2007
£1billion to be invested in the extended schools programme over the next three years.
Jul 13 2007
£100m to give every child the chance of five hours of sport a week

Key Reports

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Feb 17 2012
Protecting Children Online: Teachers' perspectives on eSafety - the results of an NFER survey investigating teachers' attitudes to of e-safety, cyberbullying, pupil use of mobile phones and social networking.
Jun 22 2011
OFSTED report on improving resources in geography teaching
Jan 13 2009
An OFSTED survey of Virtual learning environments (VLEs) which use computers to allow remote access to learning materials. This survey evaluates how VLEs are developing within a selection of providers.
Nov 19 2008
Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector 2007/8 This report draws on evidence July 2007 and reflects the first full year of inspection and regulation by Ofsted across its expanded remit, including findings education and skills provision for learners of all ages includes Further Education colleges.
May 1 2008
2008 Departmental Report with expenditure plans
Oct 17 2007
Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector 2006/7
Aug 9 2007
Select committee report on school building
May 1 2007
A report on capital spending on school buildings
May 1 2007
2007 Departmental Report including spending plans
Dec 1 2006
2006 Departmental Report on meeting Public Sector Agreement Targets includes information on spending
Nov 22 2006
Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector 2005/6
Nov 24 2005
Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom 2005. Provides an integrated overview of statistics on education and training in the UK, in some 60 tables. Chapters relate to expenditure; schools; post-compulsory education and training; qualifications and destinations; population, and international comparisons.
Oct 19 2005
Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector 2004/5

Statistical Volumes

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Dec 8 2011
Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom 2011. This volume contains information such as the number of schools by type and region, pupil numbers and pupil-teacher ratios, pupil progress and standards and free school meals data (Chapter 1); numbers involved in post-compulsory education or training (Chapter 2); GCSE and A Level results and pupil destinations (Chapter 3).

Relevant Web Sites

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Jan 29 2012
A fully independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England launched in October 2006
Jan 1 2009
Building Schools for the Future Partnership for Schools is the website for information about Building Schools for the Future, The Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a project to rebuild or remodel every state secondary school in England. It was launched by the (then) Department for Education & Skills in February 2004. More information on the DCSF website
Jan 1 2009
Section of Teachernetwebsite on capital spending