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Looking to the Future after online harassment

Lawrence Foley went from school refuser to doctor in modernist literature – but his career almost came to a crashing halt after a vicious online campaign Foley was sitting in a park with his wife Sonia when his phone rang. It was the Metropolitan Police. A social media campaign, accusing Foley of being a racist […]

Lack of ‘capacity-givers’ forces small academy trust into merger

Coast and Vale Learning Trust was told by the DfE it would not be allowed to take on any more schools in deficit

Academy trusts: From growing pains to gains

As more leaders consider growth, what do we know about how to do this well?

GAG pooling transparency calls as trust takes 20% from schools

‘Schools within the trust are having significant amounts of income retained centrally’

Dan Thomas, chief executive, TLP

Dan Thomas, now chief executive of The Learning Partnership trust, was once prompted by a fortune cookie to ‘take the opportunity when it comes’. He has, and provided opportunities to thousands of youngsters ever since. When Dan Thomas, chief executive of the newly formed The Learning Partnership (TLP) trust, suggested posing for our photoshoot next […]

Rise in £200k academy trust CEOs as pay ‘stagnation’ ends

Three more leaders now earn over £300,000, our annual investigation finds

Academy converters can’t get £25k grant if they become a SAT

But trust body flags concern over capacity to manage ‘spike’ in applications before change comes into force

A journey from California’s Death Row to school governance

From California’s Death Row to school governance, the Confederation of School Trusts’ Samira Sadeghi explains how the roles are more linked than you might think. When Samira Sadeghi is delivering training to support sector leaders getting governance right, she explains how insights gleaned about human fallibility from her time working as a lawyer on death […]

Academy trust development statements boost decline of standalone schools

Leaders fear smaller academy trusts ‘aren’t being allowed to grow’ in England’s left-behind areas