Movers and Shakers

Free school founder joins Ormiston as national transformation director

Well-known leader takes up secondment at country's ninth biggest trust

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
News

Oasis names new CEO to succeed John Murphy

54-school trust appoints new chief executive following four-month search led by advisory firm

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Outwood Grange names interim CEO as Oliver prepares for Ofsted job

Lee Wilson is the trust's current deputy chief executive, having previously led its primary schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Leaders leave after trust uncovered £379k spend on linked supply agency

Three senior staff leave academy trust after investigators found 'undisclosed conflict of interest'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

How a trust turned around an island school

Bosses of the Isles of Scilly's only school tell how they turned around an academy split across four sites...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Sarah Finch, chief executive, Marches Academy Trust

Sarah Finch is used to going beyond the job description in her education career. The chief executive of the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

Why is academy conversion suddenly so attractive again?

There are now 608 schools using the voluntary converter route to move out of local authority control

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

DfE south west regional director leaves for council job

Hannah Woodhouse to depart the DfE after seven years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Governance

Claire Pannell is taking the law into her trust’s own hands

Claire Pannell reckons she might be the only person in the country with her job title. While many trusts...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill