Guest blog: Handling the media when the unexpected happens
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, […]
General
LAs: the good, the bad and the ugly
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 […]
LGPS time-bomb
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 […]
Education MATs v Business MATs
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 […]