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Should multi-academy trust CEO pay be regulated?

Lord Agnew, the academies minister, has sent out a fifth batch of letters to multi-academy trusts who pay their…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Navdeep Sanghara, executive headteacher, Inspire Partnership

Navdeep Sanghara is the only interviewee ever to have interpreted my question about what makes a great gift as…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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The Shanghai teacher exchange – was it worth it?

Research released last week on the Shanghai teacher exchange reveals that despite sending 60-plus teachers to and from China…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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The debate: No excuses v nurture – what’s the best behaviour policy?

Hannah Wilson heads up Aureus School in Didcot, whose strapline is “nurturing hearts and minds”. Stuart Lock runs Bedford…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Clive Webster, chief executive, Kent Catholic Schools Partnership

Clive Webster has vivid memories of the day Muhammad Ali visited his family home in Harlesden, a north-west London…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Thomas Tallis – The school using inclusion to reduce exclusion

How can schools reduce exclusions? Last year groups from the education select committee to Ofsted to the mainstream press…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter


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Colin Diamond, professor of educational leadership, University of Birmingham

Colin Diamond, professor of educational leadership, University of Birmingham As we stroll through the bustling Edgbaston campus of the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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ACE Schools Trust: The MAT branching into family services

ACE Schools Multi Academy Trust, an alternative provision trust in Devon, is developing a new way to provide wraparound…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Should home education have statutory monitoring?

With the second reading of the Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill due in parliament, we brought together…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy, Ofsted

Luke Tryl, Ofsted’s director of corporate strategy, is one of those people who always appears impeccably presented – which…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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The school leading on job shares from the top

“Why did you leave, and why are you coming back?” Simon Knight fizzles with delight as he tells the…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Can schools make any more savings?

With chancellor Hammond’s autumn budget offering schools a one-off payment of £50,000 for “little extras” but no increase in…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter

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Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures

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