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.
Not exact matches
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 c
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 c
academy chain chief
executives, and recommends reform to the funding and oversight
of chains to raise standards across the country.
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.
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 ch
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 ch
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 ch
academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal
of improving education for all children.
The way the top - slice arrangement works is that an
academy chain sponsor will provide its
academies with additional services, such as hiring
executive directors, developing staff terms and conditions and managing procurement, in return for a small percentage
of each schools revenue, known as its general annual grant (GAG).
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».
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.