The Journal for Executive and Governance Leaders
The Journal for Executive and Governance Leaders
Topic - Executive Leadership
Welcome to the April edition of Trust. I am pleased to provide my taster of the range of topics we address in this issue. In her lead article, Leora Cruddas, CEO of CST, highlights the seemingly ever present negative media coverage relating to academies and MATS and urges the sector…
At the legal and ethical heart of what we do as academy trusts lies something bold and aspirational – our core charitable purpose is to advance education for the public benefit, to make children and young people’s lives better. To change lives. This is why we exist. And this has…
What gives us character? What makes us resilient? These are two of the questions I look forward to grappling with as I chair the group announced by the Secretary of State Damian Hinds in his recent speech focussing on this topic. The discussions and consultations which lie ahead for our…
Without a curriculum, a school is just a building full of teachers and pupils. Curriculum matters and is key to defining the knowledge and experiences that pupils receive beyond their home environment. There are many extant definitions of curriculum, but at Ofsted our working definition is: ‘a framework for setting…
I wanted to join Ambition School Leadership and the Institute for Teaching (IfT) for the opportunity to work alongside people I trust and respect. Also because the organisation is a highly effective charity that places improving the life chances of disadvantaged young people at its core. Ambition and the IfT…
MATs are still new, complex and evolving in the education sector, which means leaders can often find themselves reacting to what is happening around them…