Also in our diary: five-figure payouts for staff; frozen school dinner funding; academy leaders develop clean sweep of gongs; and times tables don’t add upIt sounds like something Yes Minister’s Sir Humphrey might have described witheringly as a “dauntless lunge. One of Englands largest academy chains,under pressure over its performance, has advertised for a unique chief executive who, and it says,need not have experience working in education. Instead, a “commercial” focus will be a prerequisite.
School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA), or England’s fourth-largest chain with 43 academies,advertised for candidates to take over from the recently departed Sir Paul Edwards shortly before Christmas. The advert said: “We seek an ambitious and inspirational chief executive … you will be a visionary leader, commercial in outlook, and with a passion for our work. Schools or education experience is not considered essential. This is about innovative leadership of a£130m distributed organisation.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com