The Future Leaders trust launched its executive educators» programme for current and would - be
academy chain chief executives last year.
Academy chain chief executive Alan Yellup (pictured above), who is also on the headteacher board for West Yorkshire and Lancashire, revealed his region's target at the Westminster Education Forum last week.
Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of
academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.
Education Business analyses Reform's Academy chains unlocked report, which presents results from the first survey of
academy chain chief executives, and recommends reform to the funding and oversight of chains to raise standards across the country.
Not exact matches
«The call for
academy chains to face inspection is now widely supported, including by the
Chief Inspector.
One
chief executive told Reform they felt their
chain had been overlooked in the rebrokerage of a local school that would have matched the
chain well and part of the problem was a lack of awareness that the rebrokerage was taking place, as there is not and up - to - date list of maintained schools looking for sponsors or «inadequate» schools or
academies requiring sponsors.
The salary for Sir Daniel Moynihan, the Harris
Academy chain's
chief executive, has reached # 395,000 - # 400,000 after a recent salary rise, according to reports from the Guardian.
This comes after Eva Moskowitz,
chief executive of New York charter
chain Success
Academy, also told TES that she would not be interested as her work in New York was «far from done».
After questioning Spielman, the Education Select Committee recognised her contributions to the education sector through her work with the ARK
academy chain, but said it could not support her as
Chief Inspector.
The large salaries enjoyed by
chief executives at some of England's
academy chains is not justified by the performance of the schools they run, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.
Malcolm Trobe, the interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said salary levels were set by factors including the value - for - money the
chief executives provided, and could be offset by the saving an
academy chain could bring, such as group discounts for contracts.
Recently, the Ofsted
chief Sir Michael Wilshaw criticised seven sizeable
academy chains for failing to improve the results of too many pupils in their schools, while paying board members large salaries.
This is money which should be spent on educating children: not being stashed in «reserves» on balance sheets or used to fund exorbitant salaries for
Chief Executives of unaccountable
academy chains.
The report also recommends that school funding is given to
academy chains rather than individual schools to avoid a reported «power struggle» between
chief executives and headteachers.
The report will reveal key information for the 2015 - 16 academic year, such as the number of
academy chiefs paid more than the prime minister; how much
academy staff have been paid in severance deals; and how much
academy chains pay to companies linked to their trustees.
Ian Cleland,
chief executive of the
Academy Transformation Trust (ATT), which runs 24 schools, said his
chain would share «experience and expertise» in apprenticeships linked to services in a school.
Ofsted
chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has often called for his organisation to be given additional powers to inspect and grade the management of
academy chains.
Ofsted
chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has previously said he believes that sponsors of such
academy chains should face inspections.
And the combined cost to England's largest
chain,
Academies Enterprise Trust, of employing first one, and then another,
chief executive during 2016 - 17 was also # 400,000.
Lucy Heller,
chief executive of the ARK
academy chain, said: «One of the benefits of being part of a strong
academy network is the importance placed on monitoring - not just to drive up standards but to ensure financial good practice.
AET's recently appointed
chief executive Julian Drinkall is reportedly receiving an annual salary of # 240,000 [3] despite Ofsted warnings over executive pay at
academy chains such as AET.
«We will be inspecting local authorities and we should inspect
academy chains as well, if we identify underperformance,» said the Ofsted
chief.
The public have a right to know that this money is being spent on their childrens» education and not on BMWs for a new breed of overpaid
Academy Principals or so called
Chief Executives of
Academy Chains.
Analysis by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) reveals that at least four
academy chain employees — two of them
chief executives — work or have worked as government education advisers on projects boosting the number of such schools.
Former education secretary David Blunkett has resigned as chair of the David Ross Education Trust, one of England's largest
academy chains, with several other senior figures including the
chief executive.