Children's Secretary Ed Balls has revealed details of the expected cuts, which will see education quangos' budgets slashed by £135m, extended services support by £100m and funding for so-called "golden hellos" to attract applicants to teaching by £50m.
A further £21m of savings will be found within the DCSF's backroom staff, with communications seeing the most severe cuts in a package of measures that involves moving Teachers TV online.
The government's IT in education body Becta will see a 40 per cent cut in its budget, amounting to £45m in cuts between 2011 and 2013. Teacher training body the Training and Development Agency is to see its non-teacher training budget cut by 30 per cent over the same period, amounting to around £55m.
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