Education

Penny Mordaunt said the GEO's work would "broaden out" to ensure it supported women "at every stage of their lives".

The government said it would "think creatively about current and future challenges relating to cyber skills" in response to a joint select committee report.

Department for Transport, Ministry of Justice, Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions teams among those honoured at ceremony

Department for Work and Pensions accused of being 'in denial' over negative impacts of new welfare system

PA Consulting offers a four-point plan to delivering organisational transformation

New hiring and promotion framework based on questionable premise says former MoD, DETR and DWP chief

Perm sec Jonathan Slater has instructed his head statistician to work with DfE's comms and policy teams to ensure its stats “meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and value”

Fraud is estimated to cost the UK government £73.6m per year

Education secretary Damian Hinds has been rapped by the government's statistics watchdog over a string of claims about school funding and performance.

The Institute for Apprenticeships was 'playing catch-up for the mistakes the department made before it was created', MPs said

Teachers’ groups say the DfE's claim the UK is among the world's top spenders on education disguises funding cuts

“We may need to do more to ensure that the levy supports the development of the skilled workforce our economy needs,” chancellor Philip Hammond said

Outsourcing firm now owns 75% of flagship 'mutual' civil service pensions administrator

Government Economic Service unveils four-year degree-level apprenticeship programme

The civil service values two types of knowledge, writes former senior civil servant Andrew Greenway, and understanding of policy is trumped by the skill of navigating Whitehall itself

Sir David Normington says move will be vital to keep tabs on unskilled migrant workers and blasts government’s current immigration targets

Report says watchdog Ofsted’s approach must be reviewed after 52% real-terms funding cuts prompt ‘narrow focus’ on cost of inspection

Former Charity Commission boss Paula Sussex set to join non-departmental public body

National Audit Office says decision to establish single provider has caused expensive backlogs and increased staff costs by 17%

New research indicates the civil service risks losing its most digitally-skilled people, but it doesn’t have to be that way

Higher Education Policy Institute calls for government to fund free access – regardless of age – up qualification level 3, equivalent to A-Level or AS-Level

Chief people officer Rupert McNeil reveals figure alongside new mental health guide for managers

Union says cap-busting pay rise in return for working-hours flexibilities would see some staff lose out

Daniel Thornton reviews Geoff Mulgan’s book, which argues that solving the hardest problems is about improving the way people think together