In an article published in the Sunday Times last weekend, Mr Balls said the Department for Children, Schools and Families had been asked to make savings of £500m by 2013 as part of plans to tackle Britain's £170bn deficit.
He revealed that he will do this by cutting £100m in funding for after-school clubs, £135m from quangos, including a £40m reduction in the budget of Becta, the agency that promotes IT use in schools, and £55m from the Training and Development Agency.
There would also be a £50m reduction in bursaries for trainee teachers, with 'golden hellos' cut from £9,000 to £4,000 a year, and £5m would be cut from communications by sending fewer printed documents to schools and by taking Teachers TV off Freeview and making it internet-only.
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