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Higher Education has been promised a near ten per cent rise in Government funding over the next three years.It will support modernisation and expansion of the higher education sector, and cover pay ...

Business intelligence is about making better use of information that is already stored away. Some 95 per cent of councils have made it a strategic priority, but few have quality data to support ...

Local councils in England are adopting a ‘wait and see’ attitude to e-Government according to the latest picture of how billions of pounds of government investment in technology are being put to ...

Details of grants to councils that agree to freeze or reduce council tax have been published. Councils that freeze or reduce their council tax next year will get a one off grant equivalent to raising ...

Parents who ensure their children don’t play truant will be able to get discounts and free places on holidays under an initiative designed to tackle unauthorised absence from schools. The scheme, ...

Some councils do not want to achieve all round excellence in Comprehensive Performance Assessments and are content to be just good enough in some areas, according to comments made by some councillors ...

Becker D O, George M A, Goolsby A E, Grissom D CThe McKinsey Quarterly, (USA), 1998 No 1. Start page: 116. No of pages: 10 Addresses the issue of how services can be delivered in a timely and ...

Chris Leslie, director of the New Local Government Network has called for the debate on choice in public services to take into account the principles of fairness and equal opportunity. Mr. Leslie’s ...

Local councillors fear their democratic role is being downgraded by the growing number of partnership policies introduced by central government, according to research published today by the Joseph ...

Pressures to integrate health and social care are steadily rising. Increasing life expectancy, the ability to treat more conditions and unsustainable cost rises are driving the rethinking process. In ...

The Near Neighbours programme has been launched to help people within communities to get to know each other better and to help them to improve their local neighbourhoods. The three-year Near ...