In the ever-evolving landscape of education, Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) play a pivotal role in shaping the future of learning institutions. As MATs expand and take on new challenges, it […]
You know the feeling of anti-climax when you’ve been expecting something for a long time and when it finally drops, you wondered why you’d expected more in the first place? […]
The first half term is drawing to a close and we are all crawling to our first break. This only means one thing… the first meetings of governors and trustees […]
Academisation is something that everyone in the education sector has a view on. There are those who are passionate about the opportunities on offer, and then there are those who […]
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 […]
‘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’. […]
The first building block came in 2010 with the coalition changing how Academies looked. Under the previous government, these were failing schools where money was thrown at trying to solve […]
At the start of the Academies Act, schools applied to the DfE, were assessed and – nearly every time – approved for their Academy Order. Then, with the advent of […]
