Academies

Academy freedoms? ‘I’ve never seen teachers more enslaved’ says school standards tsar

Sir Kevan Collins warns of a 'narrow compliance culture' in some schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Regions group

Intervention model for regional improvement teams revealed

New teams will RAG rate schools for support, draw up 'local area priorities' and use councils for help

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Revealed: 36 leaders to form CST policy advisory group

New panel will help 'shape the policy landscape for school trusts across England'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development

CST's new policy advisory group will provide 'critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for...

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Rollett
Academies

Academy conversion grant scrapped and ‘no plans’ for further trust capacity fund cash

Academies body says decisions will make it 'much more difficult' for trusts to support schools in need and will...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
community hubs

United Learning to launch charity to run community hubs

But country's largest trust stresses the initiative won't 'take resource from teaching and learning'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Lilac Sky scandal: £3m of ‘contentious, irregular or improper’ payments revealed

Government investigation 'outcome' report comes eight years after intervention, but contains just three pages and few details

John Dickens
John Dickens
Support staff

New law mustn’t rule CEOs are ‘support staff’, DfE told

The organisation representing academies in England wants central teams to be excluded from the bill's definition of support staff

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Revealed: The 125 leaders in the running for CST policy group

The elected group will draw on leaders from across England and give feedback on policy issues facing academies

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson