Cash-starved councils lack the manpower or even enough available schools to launch their own multi-academy trusts (MATs), ministers have been warned. Labour will start...
A government-backed pilot turnaround trust for Catholic schools will morph into one of England’s biggest – as church bosses say 70-strong MATs are “becoming...
Plans to run more than 100 academies could leave the country’s biggest trust “spread thin”, a former academies minister has warned. United Learning (ULT)...
Schools and trusts have been urged to ignore “fraudulent” letters with “a ministerial signature” purporting to be about a data breach. The Department for...
New powers to allow ministers to close academy trusts for educational failure should be used “rarely” and with “caution”, sector leaders have warned. Presently,...
The prominent boss of a troubled academy trust saddled with a multi-million-pound deficit has resigned following a leave of absence. Schools Week previously revealed...
Most behind-closed-doors meetings that once analysed plans for the future of schools have already been canned, Schools Week can reveal, as ministers prepare to scrap the...
Almost 100 academy trust bosses are paid eye-watering salaries of more than £200,000, prompting calls from governors for an NHS-style executive pay framework. Schools...