The Folly of Multiple Academy Trusts – Unaccountable and Profit-driven – a Toxic Formula for Education
14 Feb
The answer, as with everything with this Tory government, was privatisation.
The question had been how to drive up standards in learning across the country.
Unsurprisingly, the Multiple Academy Chains which replaced Local Education Authorities made hay whilst the money was good and are now bleating when budgets are cut.
The MATs have had a patchy history, some embroiled in what amounted to embezzlement scams, with chief executives asked to, or forced to step down. Money has been misappropriated, often by those previously described as “superheads” on the basis of driving short term improvement in one school and then trying to take the same one trick pony of “do as I say and all will be well” to multiples of schools. The element that characterised many of those leading MATS was a fearsome cult of personality that would make the North Korean leadership blush.
The result, bolstered by a culture…
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5 Ways to Improve Teachers’ Lives
18 Dec
The cumulative effect of annually missing recruitment targets to Initial Teacher Training and chronically poor retention means if you don’t love the teachers you’ve got another school will be more than happy to welcome them. I’ve always maintained that we can’t recruit our way out of the pending crisis; retention will be the key to having a full staffing establishment in the years ahead.
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Learning Strategies That Work
13 Dec
A great piece in the Guardian by Carl Hendrick that links principles to practise in the classroom. He also debunks some high workload / low impact elements present in many classrooms.
Read the full article here: Teachers: your guide to learning strategies that really work | Teacher Network | The Guardian
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