Based on more than 70 interviews with headteachers and
academy trust chief executives, as well as a «supply projection» based on the latest pupil and workforce data, it predicts a future shortage of between 14,000 to 19,000 leaders sparked by increasing pupil numbers, retirements, and school leaders leaving the profession early.
An academy trust chief executive who resigned after a misconduct investigation received a payout of of more than # 85,000.
Each of the new boards will have members from across local councils, teaching schools, dioceses and the ranks of
academy trust chief executives to advise regional school commissioners (RSCs) on improvement strategies for failing schools.
I recently spoke with
an academy trust chief executive whose schools had a ridiculous number of commissioner officials and Ofsted in at the same time.
The Gorse
Academies Trust chief executive, Sir John Townsley, Chris O'Shaughnessy and Beer herself were also board members at some time.
And Specialist Schools and
Academies Trust chief executive Elizabeth Reid said academies set up to replace failing schools had «shown dramatic improvements in many cases».
Not exact matches
Karen Pollock MBE,
chief executive of the Holocaust Educational
Trust, said: «We are delighted to be working with Liverpool Football Club to give their
Academy teams the opportunity to hear from a Holocaust survivor.
A CHANGE IN CULTURE Other seminar sessions included one delivered by Cathie Paine, deputy
chief executive of REAch2
Academy Trust.
Another motivational session was delivered by Rob Tarn, the regional
chief executive and national leader of education at the high - performing Outwood Grange
Academy Trust.
Sir Nick Weller,
chief executive of the Bradford - based Dixons
Academies Trust, was commissioned to write the report by former chancellor George Osborne, and former education secretary Nicky Morgan.
In addition, Rob Tarn, the regional
chief executive and national leader of education at Outwood Grange
Academies Trust, will be sharing advice on «implementing effective measures to transform schools and improve learning outcomes».
RSC Tim Coulson has resigned from his role to become
chief executive of the Samuel Ward
Academy Trust in Suffolk.
Wilshaw wrote: «Given these worrying findings about the performance of disadvantaged pupils and the lack of leadership capacity and strategic oversight by trustees, salary levels for the
chief executives of some of these MATs do not appear to be commensurate with the level of performance of their
trusts or constituent
academies.
Nick Blackburn,
chief executive of Heathfield
Academy Trust, said: «Catterick is an area of local need and North Yorkshire County Council has indicated that there is expected to be a shortfall of 730 primary school places in the area.
The country's largest multi-academy
trust, Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), has had Julian Drinkall appointed as its new chief execu
trust,
Academies Enterprise
Trust (AET), has had Julian Drinkall appointed as its new chief execu
Trust (AET), has had Julian Drinkall appointed as its new
chief executive.
Chris Brislen is
chief executive officer of St Bart's Multi-Academy
Trust and as a National Leader of Education (NLE) he has led several
academies to an improved future.
As part of the new regulations,
academy trusts must notify EFA of the appointment of members or trustees and the vacating or filing of the positions of chair of trustee, accounting officer and
chief financial officer within 14 days of the change.
Tim Coulson,
Chief Executive of Samuel Ward
Academy Trust is one of a number of senior MAT execs and head teachers who contributed to the research.
Other key speakers included Rachel Wolf, director at the New Schools Network, Tim Byles,
chief executive at Partnerships for Schools, and Sir Bruce Liddington, director at Edu -
Trust Academies Charitable
Trust (E-ACT), who featured in numerous panel discussions.
Many of the pre-opening steps will also be required although responsibility for registration with the ICO rests with the
academy trust, the
academy trust may make arrangements for the necessary insurance to be in place and will also already have appointed an accounting officer and
chief financial officer.
Libby Nicholas,
chief executive of Astrea
Academy Trust, told Tes: «Our teachers are such a valuable asset — they work tirelessly to deliver an education that inspires beyond measure.
One example of this is Tim Coulson,
Chief Executive of Samuel Ward
Academy Trust, who summed up the power of data rather neatly.
At this time of year in the life of an
Academy,
Academy Principals press for the hand of their
trusted chief finance officer (CFO)(variously their business manager, or director of finance — the names are various and too many to mention).
Paul Thorogood,
chief executive of the Football Foundation, said: «This was truly a landmark day for the Newbridge High School
Academy Trust and for this part of Leicestershire, which now boasts its first ever 3G playing surface.»
Executive Principal and
Chief Executive Officer, STEP
Academy Trust.
During his tenure as Group
Chief Executive, the percentage of good or outstanding
academies in our
Trust has increased from less than 26 % to 68 %.
The
trust was set up by Sir Michael Wilkins,
chief executive of the
trust and principal of Ofsted - rated outstanding Outwood Grange
Academy, near Wakefield.
Dr Jo Saxton, the
trust's current
chief executive, said in a statement: «We are delighted that Paul Smith is joining Future
Academies; he's committed to our
trust's values of knowledge, aspiration and respect, and will work to help us to continue to improve the education and life chances of even more children.
He follows Paul Smith who left his role as RSC for Lancashire and West Yorkshire less than 12 months in to become
chief exeuctive of the Future
Academies trust, founded and run by junior schools minister Lord Nash.
Ian Cleland (pictured right),
chief executive of ATT, said schools,
academies and multi-academy
trusts across the country are all being affected by «significant financial challenges».
Coulson will be taking over from outgoing
chief executive Howard Lay, to run the
academy trust of 15 schools, overseeing the education of 8,000 pupils.
David Baker, the interim
chief executive at Ridings until it joins his Olympus
Academy Trust, said he and new chair of governors, Claire Emery, had commissioned an audit of the trust's finances when they both took over last
Trust, said he and new chair of governors, Claire Emery, had commissioned an audit of the
trust's finances when they both took over last
trust's finances when they both took over last year.
Schools Week has learned that other early converter
academies that went on to form multi-academy
trusts, are the most likely to have similar over-powerful
chief executives, although many now seem to have ditched their controversial set - ups.
Ofsted told the CfBT Schools
Trust in September last year that it had taken on «too many
academies too quickly», something that
chief executive Chris Tweedale (pictured right) said had contributed to issues.
Last month, the Park View
Trust, which oversees the
academy, wrote to Ofsted
chief Sir Michael Wilshaw saying it was «astonishing» that «the Trojan Horse dossier, though anonymous, unsigned, undated and being full of factual errors and malicious allegations has unfortunately received so much credence».
Christine Ryan, the former
chief inspector of the Independent Schools Inspectorate, is to become a Dame, while David Earnshaw, the chair of the Outwood Grange
Academies Trust, will be made a CBE.
Quinn, the former executive principal and
chief executive of Ninestiles
academy trust in Birmingham, has been in post for less than two months.
The Future Leaders
trust launched its executive educators» programme for current and would - be
academy chain
chief executives last year.
Richard Ludlow, the
chief executive of Ebor
Academy Trust, is planning to run four hubs of between eight and 10 schools «within relatively easy reach of one another».
At one point, when presenting to a room of heads at an
academy trust, the
chief executive suggested he experiment, one weekend, with switching everyone's emails off at 9 pm on a Friday night and switching them back on at 6 am on Monday.
The
chief executive of the Elliot Foundation
Academies Trust, Hugh Greenway, believes the size of the trust is important to its sustainabi
Trust, Hugh Greenway, believes the size of the
trust is important to its sustainabi
trust is important to its sustainability.
An
academy and free school
trust praised by the Prime Minister has paid its
chief executive a second salary passed through two separate companies, a government report says.
The research, which included testimony from more than 60
academy trust bosses, found that «some
chief executives felt disengaged from the commissioning process, while others considered themselves to be in the loop».
The event started with a whole - school assembly with special guests, Mrs Pat Jefferson, Chair of NET
Academies Trust, Mrs Maxine Evans,
Chief Executive of NET
Academies Trust and Roy Blatchford, Director of The National Education
Trust present as invited guests.
The
academy trust could feel so strongly against introducing a coasting school or
academy that the accounting officer or
chief executive may even resign in protest.
Before founding Turner Schools, Saxton served as
chief executive of Future
Academies, a trust founded by the former academies minister L
Academies, a
trust founded by the former
academies minister L
academies minister Lord Nash.
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.
Gillian Allcroft (pictured), deputy
chief executive of the National Governance Association, said interim boards often drove rapid improvement, but said it was «highly unusual» for a single
academy trust, such as Parkfield, to delegate all the powers of its trustees to a new committee.
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.
«I think that as we look at each of those schools in the particular markets and catchment areas in which they exist, there might be arguments for selection in certain places,» Julian Drinkall,
chief executive of the
Academies Enterprise
Trust, told the TES.