Since the start of the academy movement, opinion has been divided on the topic of centralisation. Should MATs centralise their systems for better financial health? Do schools have to sacrifice […]
With schools being schools, you are only ever one phone call away from the unexpected. It is not just the Ofsted call that can cause a raft of activity; complaints, […]
Generalisations never work. There are those who say only LA’s are capable of truly supporting schools and therefore the academy programme is wrong and doomed to fail. How come then […]
Academies face a ticking time-bomb that is the treatment they face by the LGPS scheme they are members of. Inheriting a deficit is one thing but facing an increased employer […]
Nearly every school tells me they want a non-hierarchical, flat structure MAT than ‘being told what to do by people we don’t know’. For me, that discounts business MAT’s run […]
