This summer, Forum Education consulted
academy trust CEOs and trustees from across our regional leaders» networks to ask how the challenges associated with MAT governance could be improved through better trustee recruitment and training.
The education landscape is changing fast and school leadership has diversified to include executive heads and
academy trust CEOs.
Not exact matches
Among the honoured include:
CEO at Burnt Mill
Academy Trust, Helena Mills (CBE) for services to education; Margaret Sumner (OBE), headteacher based in Tottenham for services to special educational needs and disabilities; and Barnsley headteacher, Julie Anne Allen (MBE), for her services to education.
Christine has a wealth of experience having previously served as a headteacher and more recently in her capacity as both Executive Principal and
CEO of Ninestiles
Academy trust.
Ian Comfort, the group
CEO of the
Academies Enterprise
Trust, the country's largest
academy chain, has announced he is stepping down from his role.
He has held the position of group
CEO for the past three three years and has overseen the percentage of good or outstanding
academies in the
Trust increase from less than 26 per cent to 68 per cent.
It is possible now for a relatively inexperienced head teacher with limited experience to become an executive principal and then a
CEO of a multi
academy trust.
The head teacher of a school judged to be Good or Outstanding, irrespective of its context, is being encouraged to sponsor other schools and become de facto the executive principal and then
CEO of the multi
academy trust created.
Speaking about the
Trust and its aspirations,
CEO, Professor Sonia Blandford, said: «Over the past two years, Park House School and Achievement for All have been working closely with the Department for Education to design a Multi
Academy Trust that puts children and young people at the centre of everything we do.
Andy Bird,
CEO of Fairfax Multi -
Academy Trust said: «It's great to see the amazing talent from pupils at Fairfax being utilised in such a positive manner.
Libby Nicholas is
CEO of Astrea
Academy Trust.
Which might be almost supportable («making difficult decisions») if it wasn't for the fact they don't seem at all concerned with the ridiculously high
CEO salaries
Academy Trusts are paying at the same time.
Libby Nicholas is
CEO of Reach4
Academy Trust.
The MAT
CEOs I talk to often ask me where they can find the answers to running an effective
academy trust.
Tom Bennett, Founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the Department for Education Behaviour Group John Blake, History Consultant & Leading Practitioner at Harris Federation Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration
Trust Anthony Denny, Parent & Governor, Jane Austen College Rachel De Souza,
CEO, Inspiration
Trust Toby French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay
Academy Claire Heald, Executive Principal, Jane Austen College Karl Hoods, Chairman of Governors, Harris
Academy Beckenham Hywel Jones, Head Teacher, West London Free School Michaela Khatib, Executive Head, Cobham Free School Mark Lehain, Principal, Bedford Free School Stuart Lock, Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Helena Mills,
CEO, Burnt Mills
Academy Trust Munira Mirza, Former Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture for London Dan Moynihan,
CEO, Harris Federation Libby Nicholas,
CEO, Reach 4
Academy Trust Sara Noel, Parent and Governor, Cottenham Village College Martyn Oliver,
CEO, Outwood Grange
Academies Trust James O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Floreat Education
Academies Trust Bruno Reddy, Maths Social Entrepreneur & former Head of Maths at King Solomon
Academy Martin Robinson, Educationalist & author of Trivium21c Mark Rose, Governor, Great Yarmouth Primary
Academy Jo Saxton,
CEO, Turner Schools Multi-
Academy Trust Tony Sewell, Founder of Generating Genius Jonathan Simons, Head of Education at Policy Exchange & Chairman of Governors, Greenwich Free School Luke Sparkes, Principal, Trinity
Academy Alex Wade, Parent and Chairman of Governors, Fulham Boys School Claire Ward, Parent, Cobham Free School Rachel Wolf, Founder of The New Schools Network & Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education
School funding chiefs and
academy trust bosses have been under increasing pressure to crack down on excessive executive pay following a public backlash over rising
academy CEO pay in recent years.
Averre - Beeson said the companies had been renamed «to avoid any additional confusion» with the Lilac Sky Schools
Academy Trust, which he stepped down from the
CEO post in March last year and later relinquished his trustee position.
Other speakers and panellists include: Dr Charles Chew, Public Service Commission Teaching Scholar, Singapore Education Service, Wendy Kopp,
CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, Professor Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London, Sir Michael Wilkins, Founding
CEO of Outwood Grange
Academies Trust, Sir Michael Wilshaw, formerly Ofsted's Chief Inspector and currently Professor of Education and Director of Multi-Academy
Trusts at St Mary's University, London, Roblin Webb, founder /
CEO of Freedom Prep Charter Schools, Norman Atkins, Co-Founder and President of Relay GSE, Professor Rebecca Allen, Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science at the UCL Institute of Education, Professor Rob Coe, Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at Durham University, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Sir Kevan Collins,
CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation.
Since September 2013 she has also been the
CEO of BMAT, a small
academy co-operative
trust of 6 schools.
Carrfield
Academy celebrates Ofsted «Good» + + CEO hails «phenomenal achievement» + + + + Inspection Letter confirms a «good quality of education» + + An academy that had been recognised as being in Special Measures prior to joining the Astrea Academy Trust is today celebrating a «Good» judgement from
Academy celebrates Ofsted «Good» + +
CEO hails «phenomenal achievement» + + + + Inspection Letter confirms a «good quality of education» + + An
academy that had been recognised as being in Special Measures prior to joining the Astrea Academy Trust is today celebrating a «Good» judgement from
academy that had been recognised as being in Special Measures prior to joining the Astrea
Academy Trust is today celebrating a «Good» judgement from
Academy Trust is today celebrating a «Good» judgement from Ofsted.
Now Sir Barry Day, former
CEO of Greenwood
Academies Trust and one of Gove's Magnificent Seven, joins the list.
Jo Evans is
CEO of St Christopher's Multi
Academy Trust, currently 15 primary schools across Plymouth, Torbay and Devon Local Authorities.
Fiona Bradley Director, Fruitmarket Gallery Dr Maria Balshaw Director, Manchester City Art Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Gallery Caroline Collier Director of partnerships and programmes, Tate Jeremy Deller Artist Dr Stephen Deuchar Director, Art Fund Adam Caruso Caruso St John Architects Alex Farquharson Director, Tate Britain Martin Green
CEO & Director, Hull City of Culture 2017 Simon Groom Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Paul Hobson Director, Modern Art Oxford Alistair Hudson Director, Mima, Middlesbrough Judy Kelly Artistic director, Southbank Centre David Lan Director, The Young Vic James Lingwood Co-director, Artangel Dave Moutrey Director and
CEO, Home Andrew Nairne Director, Kettle's Yard Hans Ulrich Obrist Artistic director, Serpentine Gallery Cornelia Parker Artist Grayson Perry Artist Fiona Rae Artist Jonathan Reekie Director, Somerset House
Trust Charles Saumarez Smith
CEO, Royal
Academy of Arts Conrad Shawcross Artist Matthew Slotover Co-founder, Frieze Kathleen Soriano Chair, Liverpool Biennial Peter St John Caruso St John Architects Polly Staple Director, Chisenhale Gallery Sally Tallant Director, Liverpool Biennial Paul Thompson Rector, Royal College of Art Mark Wallinger Artist Simon Wallis Director, Hepworth Wakefield Jonathan Watkins Director, Ikon Gallery Richard Wentworth Artist Samuel West Chair, National Campaign for the Arts
Blackpool, England, UK About Blog LeadingLearner is a blog authored by Stephen Tierney, the current
CEO of the Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic Multi
Academy Trust.