How a trust merger has grown our ambition and scale Bringing two trusts together isn’t without its challenges but the rewards are for everyone
2023 in review: Exhaustion has reached the boardroom 2023 will go down as the year that the recruitment and retention crisis brought school governance itself to breaking point
2023 in review: We can find elegant solutions to our wicked problems Specialist provision has risen up the political agenda and risen to its challenges- but it can’t keep doing ever more with ever less
What parents told us about their children’s mental health Parents across the UK are worried about the mental state of their children, reveals a new survey
2023 in review: How much more of a kicking can we take? We’ve been playing on a slanted pitch for far too long and players are abandoning the game
2023 in review: We look after more and more, but who looks after us? Becky Black reflects on a year when long-term disruption by RAAC resulted in a short pause from Ofsted. A parable for the education system as a whole?
2023 in review: Our focus must be on rebuilding a broken social contract Trust leaders must learn from our longest-standing institutions and put long-term aims over short-term results
2023 in review: We can no longer ignore the impact of poverty Four publications this month sum up the state of education policy at year’s end and make next year’s priorities very clear
Are teacher commutes getting any greener? Teacher commutes are decarbonising very slowly but there are signs that efforts are building up a head of steam