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Lisa Nandy MP today expressed concern that the civil service fast stream programme was not accessible to a diverse talent pool.
Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People wants to speed things up
The Defence Select Committee chair has criticised the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) prioritising management skills over local expertise in its overseas staff, and expressed scepticism over the UK’s approach to developing strategy.
Permanent secretaries have less than a month to deliver work to boost diversity in their departments, the government’s new diversity champion Sir Simon Fraser revealed at this year’s Civil Service Diversity & Equality Awards.
Victor Adebowale may be a peer of the realm, but his ideas for public service reform – built on 30 years’ experience in housing and social care – challenge established thinking. Winnie Agbonlahor meets him
An MBA has long opened doors in the business world – but the qualification is just as valuable to civil servants
A total of 200 18-21-year-olds are this week starting the government’s civil service Fast Track apprenticeship scheme.
More than half of permanent secretaries attended Oxbridge, compared to less than 1% of the public as a whole, according to a report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission which criticises the lack of diversity among the people running the country.
When university fees tripled in the coalition’s early days, there were dire warnings of the effect on social mobility and student numbers. But as Suzannah Brecknell reports, the real dangers lay elsewhere.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) “should urgently invest in its operational, technical and commercial skills,” a report by the National Audit Office has found.
The Education Funding Agency is responsible for handing out £54bn of taxpayers’ money every year, funding every state school place in the country. Winnie Agbonlahor meets its chief executive, Peter Lauener
The Education Funding Agency (EFA) needs to get “to grips with effective oversight to improve public confidence in the system,” the Public Accounts Committee warned in a report.
Education can help improve social equality, says Alison Wride – but only if the universities radically change their approach to recruiting and teaching students
Departments need more flexibility on pay so that civil service organisations don’t feel the need for “bureaucratic reorganisations” designed to escape pay controls and enable them to recruit skilled staff, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Audit and governance arrangements for free schools are “not yet effective,” according to a Public Accounts Committee report published last week.
A teacher whose school has become an academy enjoys new freedoms – but not from central reforms
Project management may be as much art as science, but it’s not magic – yet government often fails to replicate the alchemy behind its biggest PPM successes. Winnie Agbonlahor reports back from a round table on the topic
A Labour government would set targets for the proportion of people from BME and working class backgrounds joining the Fast Stream, as part of a drive to improve diversity across the civil service.
The consumerisation of IT has resulted in a dramatic cultural shift in the modern workplace, writes Cornerstone.
The Commons’ Education Committee is calling on the government to develop a national strategy for care provision in its report on residential children’s homes published yesterday.
The Labour Party has criticised the Department for Education (DfE) for employing “party ideologues” as senior officials.
Educationalists are being artificially divided into two opposing camps, damaging continuity in education, the former Department for Education permanent secretary Sir David Bell has told CSW.
We need to rethink education – and the DfE’s response to constructive critics, says David Bell
As the head of the Office for Fair Access, Professor Les Ebdon is in charge of ensuring universities open their doors to a broader range of applicants. Joshua Chambers meets a surprisingly controversial public servant