Author: Nicky Phillips

The salary of the highest paid academy chain leader has soared to £370,000 – more than two-and-a-half times that of Prime Minister David Cameron. Sir Daniel Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, saw his pay for running 28 schools increase by nearly £40,000 in 2014 – making him the highest paid boss of a […]

Schools should make sure children play outside in natural light as much as possible to combat the growing number of people who are becoming shortsighted, according to new research published by Kings College London. The university has established a link between people studying to higher education level and a greater risk of developing myopia, more […]

Schools and colleges are facing losses of thousands of pounds after a computer finance company went into liquidation while still owing creditors £670,000. Instar Digital Ltd, based in Stafford, ran IT schemes for schools, including student 1:1, salary sacrifice and staff purchase schemes. The company, on its website, stated it levied public sector buying power […]

A school will be granted “extremely rare” permission by its local authority to run with a deficit for five years while it implements cost-cutting measures to get back into the black. An interim executive board (IEB) was appointed to take over the running of Sedeghill School (pictured), in Lewisham, London, last month after it received […]

New legislation will oblige the governors of schools facing forced academy conversion to support the government’s choice of sponsor, in what has been dubbed “an extraordinary attack on basic freedom of speech”. Clause 10 of the Education and Adoption Bill 2015, tabled in the House of Commons on Wednesday, requires governors to take “all reasonable […]

– Analysis reveals 133 academies rated as inadequate – Pupils spend over 7,000 days in failing converted schools Nicky Morgan has this week unveiled a “landmark” education bill that paves the way for every failing school to become an academy. But the education secretary repeatedly dodged questions on how many academies were failing, or what […]

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been blocked from obtaining highly sensitive personal data about school and college students, which had ostensibly been sought in order to help “target its messaging” around military careers. A request to access the National Pupil Database (NPD) – which includes children’s addresses, absence figures and parental occupation – was […]