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Creating a Cohesive Trust: Making sure all schools benefit from being in a MAT

Following their blog in March 2022 highlighting their research on creating a cohesive trust, ASCL Premier Partner Arbor now shares part 2 of their series which includes testimonies from five different MATs on how they’ve built resilience and cohesion in their trusts. 

Posted: 30/06/2022 12:32:26
  • Leadership
  • Governance
  • Governors and Trustees
  • MAT
  • Trusts
  • Organisational culture
  • Blog

Teacher shortages are the real issue – not strikes

The government’s pitiful record on teachers' pay is directly linked to severe teacher shortages, says Geoff Barton in his latest blog, and the Education Secretary should be focusing on recruitment and retention rather than adding to media speculation on teachers' strikes. 

Posted: 24/06/2022 08:41:26
  • Leadership
  • Pay
  • Teaching
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • DfE
  • Blog
  • Industrial action

One Voice? Many Languages! The value of multilingualism in our modern world (Part 2)

In part 2 of her two-part blog, education policy expert and Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, Bernardette Holmes MBE, considers the value of multilingualism in education and our communities. 

Posted: 20/06/2022 10:16:16
  • Inclusion
  • Teaching
  • Curriculum
  • MFL
  • Diversity
  • Blog

One Voice? Many Languages! The value of multilingualism in our modern world (Part 1)

In part 1 of her two-part blog, education policy expert and Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, Bernardette Holmes MBE, considers the value of multilingualism in education and our communities. 

Posted: 20/06/2022 10:12:31
  • Inclusion
  • Teaching
  • Learning
  • Curriculum
  • MFL
  • Diversity
  • Blog

Is a centralised education system the government’s real priority?

Are we seeing a conspiracy around a centralised education system where there is none? Geoff Barton considers the evidence in his latest blog.  

Posted: 17/06/2022 10:38:29
  • Leadership
  • Funding
  • Governance
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Accountability
  • Inspection
  • MAT
  • Blog

Curriculum for Wales, what’s the point?

With the new Curriculum for Wales beginning in schools from September 2022, ASCL Cymru Director Eithne Hughes argues in her latest blog that qualifications and accountability systems need to support schools' delivery of this ambitious curriculum rather than limiting it.

Posted: 15/06/2022 15:09:44
  • Leadership
  • Funding
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Accountability
  • Curriculum
  • Blog

Independent schools and Labour’s plan to end tax exemptions

If Labour wins the next general election, what might that mean for education, and in particular, an ongoing ideological debate? In this week's blog, Geoff Barton shares the results of our recent survey with independent members and their views on the impact on their school if charitable status was removed​.  

Posted: 10/06/2022 09:03:14
  • Leadership
  • Independent
  • Policy
  • Strategy
  • Blog