“They’re making a list and checking it twice, Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice” These words have a little more meaning than ever this year as Eileen Milner, […]
“They’re making a list and checking it twice, Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice” These words have a little more meaning than ever this year as Eileen Milner, […]
This may sound like an unusual analogy, but imagine if Santa’s Naughty or Nice list was compiled and monitored in the same way as finances in the education sector are? Just […]
David Carter, the National Schools Commissioner, has hinted at a new, potentially game changing, policy at a Church of England schools training event last week. The basic premise of what […]
We all read the headlines about what can go wrong with academy conversions. Issues such as problems with PFIs, disagreements over terms and a realisation that two different sets of […]
In the last couple of weeks problems within Multi-Academy Trusts have made the headlines yet again. Putting the Party Conferences to one-side, three stories caught my eye: A MAT in […]
After 21 academy conversions, £500,000 worth of additional funding to take on failing schools and accolades about being a “top performing” trust, things at Wakefield City Academies Trust has not […]
There is many a paradox in the Academy world but perhaps the biggest one is around the Headteacher Board. A group of Headteachers, together with and headed by an RSC, […]
‘Go before we are pushed’, ‘control the journey and destination’ as well as ‘we are not having a Trust come in and tell us what to do, how to operate’. […]
I’ve never been a fan of the phrase ‘Critical Friend’. In my opinion, what a nonsensical phrase. When I first became a governor over 23 years ago, a wise man […]
