10s of millions in taxpayers’ money ‘propping up’ badly managed academies

Around 43 per cent of state-funded schools now operate as academies, educating over half of pupils in England across over 2,700 academy trusts, and the Department for Education (DfE) aims for all state-funded schools to become part of a family of academy trusts. But in a report today the public accounts committee (PAC) says a […]

No progress towards emissions targets in 2010

Britain did not achieve the three per cent annual cut in carbon emissions needed to meet its first four carbon budgets, MPs have been told.