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  School is almost out for the holidays and EdExec LIVE has wrapped up its...
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Read Again: Making the Most of Your School or Academy’s Money

For many trust finance leads, deciding how and where to place a trust’s funds can...
  • Academies & MATs

Getting Procurement Right in Multi Academy Trusts: Practical Guidance for Tendering

As multi academy trusts continue to grow in scale and complexity, procurement has become a...
  • Academies & MATs

Read Again: Balancing Trust-Wide Consistency Across Multiple Academy Trusts

In an increasingly competitive education landscape, how a school, or a group of schools, presents...
  • Academies & MATs

Beyond Bricks and Boilers

Russell Dalton presents guidance on building better asset management frameworks for schools Walk into any...
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Exploring Academy Life: Reflections on a Secondment as COO

After stepping into the role of chief operations officer on secondment at...
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EdExec LIVE: Spring and Summer Review

  School is almost out for the holidays and EdExec LIVE has...
EdExec LIVE spring and summer event review

Read Again: Making the Most of Your School or Academy’s Money

For many trust finance leads, deciding how and where to place a...
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Getting Procurement Right in Multi Academy Trusts: Practical Guidance for Tendering

As multi academy trusts continue to grow in scale and complexity, procurement...
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Case studies: improving attendance

Links to schools and multi-academy trusts sharing their different techniques for managing and improving attendance rates in their settings Jamie Stubbs, assistant headteacher with responsibility for inclusion, safeguarding and attendance...

Guidance for trusts on how to submit a self-assessment checklist

This useful self-assessment checklist helps academy trusts to check that they are managing resources effectively and identify any adjustments they need to make CREDIT: This...
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How to grow your trust with the Trust Capacity Fund

For trusts looking to apply to the Trust Capacity Fund, what requirements do they have to meet? The Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) is a grant...
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How to grow your trust with the Trust Capacity Fund

For trusts looking to apply to the Trust Capacity Fund, what requirements do they have to meet? The Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) is a grant...

Four key tips to strengthen contract management within your multi-academy trust

No two contracts are alike. Different suppliers offer different terms and yet, after the procurement process is complete, contract management is often overtaken by more...

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Read Again: Balancing Trust-Wide Consistency Across Multiple Academy Trusts

In an increasingly competitive education landscape, how a school, or a group of schools, presents itself has never mattered more. In this two-part article, Sharon...
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The Operational Realities of Deploying Projects Across a Multi-School Trust

Kevin Parker offers a practical exploration of how trusts can plan, coordinate and deliver projects across multiple schools, balancing local needs with central oversight while...
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Beyond Bricks and Boilers

Russell Dalton presents guidance on building better asset management frameworks for schools Walk into any school and you’ll feel it immediately.  Not the data.  Not...
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Balancing Trust-Wide Consistency Across Multiple Academy Trusts

In an increasingly competitive education landscape, how a school, or a group of schools, presents itself has never mattered more. In this two-part article, Sharon...
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Articles at Glance

Read Again: Lessons from Setting Up HR in a Small MAT

Lessons from Setting Up HR in a Small MAT

Simplifying Data Management Across Your MAT

GAG statement – where to start on the journey to the BFR

Navigating the 2023 academy trust handbook: What’s new and noteworthy

Strictly Education’s MAT leaders’ report reveals insights on challenges

Read again: The importance of branding to market your MAT

Key insights from DEEP survey: Inclusivity in schools

Key procurement considerations for merging MATs

Guidance for trusts on how to submit a self-assessment checklist

How to grow your trust with the Trust Capacity Fund

How to grow your trust with the Trust Capacity Fund

Four key tips to strengthen contract management within your multi-academy trust

What do SBLs need to know about the changing MAT standards?

Consilium Academies wins MAT of the Year 2022 at National School Awards

Ofsted sing praises of the Westleigh Way

What do SBLs need to know about the changing MAT standards?

Case study: Waterhead Academy student leadership team

How to identify and measure risks at your MAT

School resource management self-assessment checklist

How to make the most of your school’s attendance data

Case study: success in CEIAG

School leaders question the benefits of academies

DfE guidance on how to improve attendance rates at your school

School leaders question the benefits of academies

Olympic sport initiative for local primary schools

The oldest primary school in the UK

Case studies: improving attendance

Academy conversion: important dates for 1 June conversion

Identity and access management

Academy conversion: important dates for 1 June conversion

Pre-election guidance for schools and multi-academy trusts

Part two: external reviews of governance for schools and academy trusts

Part one: external reviews of governance for schools and academy trusts

Are combined HR and payroll systems right for MATs?

What is the Condition Improvement Fund?

Six tips for using your brand across a multi-academy trust

Setting up school partnerships

Future-proofing academy finances

How academy orders can be revoked

How academy orders can be revoked

Centralisation a ‘strategic and cultural’ philosophy for MAT growth

Norfolk academy trust tells pupils to wear masks in classrooms

Bringing business to education

Free schools that opened in 2018: impact assessments

Amazon Business equips classrooms with everything students need to thrive

Better school finance management for MATs

Steer your career through times of change

Advice for academy trusts planning a major change

The benefits of MAT membership

For MATs: the updated school improvement capacity framework

Is joining an MAT worthwhile?

Picketing parents lose fight to stop academisation of Essex school

Ofsted calling for power to inspect MATs

314 primary schools have been forced into academisation in three years

Who should look after 'orphan' schools?

Ofsted: what are parents thinking?

Suffolk pupils asked what LGBTQ+ means to them

The power of partnerships
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