Academies

Academy trust defends £40k Teslas for central team staff

Aspirations Academies Trust has paid around £90,000 over three years for the leased vehicles

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Trusts struggling to close ‘unacceptable’ gender pay gap

The gap did narrow at 12 of the 20 biggest trusts but there has been little progress in recent...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Academies

Academy commissioner costs soar by 40% after restructure

Teams now cost more than £3,000 for each of England’s academies

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Big MATs have highest teacher turnover, EPI finds

Large trusts have highest levels of teacher turnover and are better-off, report reveals

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

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...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

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...

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

GAG pooling transparency calls as trust takes 20% from schools

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

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Dan Thomas, chief executive, TLP

Dan Thomas, now chief executive of The Learning Partnership trust, was once prompted by a fortune cookie to ‘take...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

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

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

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson