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The federal government furnishes a relatively tiny amount of K-12 funding—but the feds need relatively little money to exert power.

It’s hard to pinpoint the most egregious side effects of Rachel Reeves’s Budget so far, with its blizzard of bizarre policies fraught with unpleasant unintended consequences. Who do they most want to hurt? Business owners, farmers and parents who have the cheek to want the best education for their children…

The Education Secretary made her comments in a speech to hundreds of school and academy trust leaders in Birmingham.

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Fees will rise for the first time in eight years to help universities facing ‘severe financial challenges’, the Education Secretary has confirmed.

Fees are reportedly due to increase from £9,250 to £10,500 from September 2025

Bridget Phillipson said fees would have to rise in line with inflation to ‘secure the future of higher education’

As federal MPs return to Canberra, the Labor government is hoping its education reforms will allow it to end the political year on a high ahead of the election.

It comes as education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced a rise to university tuition fees

But Keir Starmer vows no return to austerity as he paves way for tax rises and spending cuts

Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, has been voluntarily interviewed under caution by police