Academies

Call for ministers to settle debate over make-up of MATs

Debate comes as huge trust gives up two special schools and another says some are 'impossible' to take on

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

New powers to close academy trusts ‘must be used with caution’

Sector responds to news government is set to gain new intervention powers once MAT inspections start

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Academies

Lift academy trust set to hand over two special schools

The 58-school MAT believes both academies will be 'best supported within a specialist trust'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Andrew Truby, CEO, St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust

When Andrew Truby took leadership of a Catholic trust, he was on his own and had no schools. He...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Success of top academy achieved ‘at too high a cost for some pupils’

Review details 'isolating, shaming' practices at Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Another Catholic diocese plans mega MATs

'Shifting demographics' and financial pressures have left trusts needing to 'serve more than 10,000', says diocese

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Island’s exodus reversed: How pupils are coming back to Sheppey

Teachers deemed the school too dangerous. Now pupils are flooding back, but there are rumblings of discontent

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

RISE support trust refused new schools over ‘not strong enough’ outcomes

Government officials raise 'quality' concerns as they tell trust 'sustained improvement' needed to grow

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Ormiston trust gives up founding school

The academy chain plans to hand the school over to a trust 'with strong local presence and capacity'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson