Inquiry into education overspends
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An official government inquiry is announced into the financial management of two education boards.
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The export value of UK education and training is Â£28bn, more than financial services, a report says.
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Too many school leavers  cannot  read, write or add up properly, large businesses complain.
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Parents are spending more than ever before on what their children wear at school, according to a survey.
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An OFT inquiry finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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Washington, D.C., led the nation in school budgets, spending $10,829 per pupil, which worked out to almost three times what last-placed Utah spent, according to a report released on Monday.
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More than $1 billion in federal funding to help schools and libraries go online is being held back
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As tuition has soared past the limits on federal aid, more students are relying on barely regulated private loans.
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Expanding waistlines are squeezing the bottom line of the nation&#39;s schools, as poor eating and exercise subtly strip money from education, a new study suggests.
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The school district that runs the nation's largest merit pay program gave oversized bonuses to nearly 100 teachers and is asking them to give it back. The president of Houston's largest teachers' union is telling members not to return the overpayments, which range from $62.50 to $2,790.
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When Congress decided to appropriate $2 million in fall 2001 to help D.C. kindergartners and first-graders learn to read, city school officials were told that the money could be spent only on the Voyager Expanded Learning literacy program, a new product with virtually no track record. They had ju...
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Medicaid is &quot;excessively overpaying pharmacists&quot; for prescription drugs, according to a government study presented Tuesday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee&#39;s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, CongressDaily reports (Heil
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The Prince of Wales has been carrying out an inquiry into school teaching methods.
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The first wave of academies have had cost overruns of up to Â£3m each, says the public spending watchdog.
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The United States spent an average of $8,701 per pupil to educate its children in 2005, the Census Bureau said on Thursday, with some states paying more than twice as much per student as others.
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In February 2005, an auditor at the General Services Administration presented evidence to agency leaders that one of the government's top technology contractors was overcharging taxpayers.
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Cambridge University has announced a Â£10.5m budget deficit for 2003-4, up Â£8.3m on the previous year.