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Most MAT chiefs are lucky if they get to open one free school in their lifetime. Wesley Davies has opened three, all of which are now rated ‘outstanding’. Davies spent the first 20 years of his career at Dixons Academies Trust, where he got first-hand experience of the emergence of the modern MAT system. As chief executive of Two Counties trust

OVER 50 Bradford district schools were affected by teachers walking out as they went on strike in a dispute over pay.

Luke Sparkes, the new chief executive of Dixons Academies Trust, talks John Dickens through expansion plans, why university-for-all is the right ambition and how the school funding squeeze threatens innovation … “I am absolutely a proud northerner,” says Luke Sparkes, who stepped up to become chief executive of Dixons Academies Trust in September. Dixons runs 16

A ROAD trip promoting a campaign to deliver books to children in schools in diverse inner-city communities across the UK stopped in Bradford today.

Dixons Allerton Academy, where a Year 6 pupil took a kitchen knife to school THERE has been concern in the local community after an 11-year-old child went into their primary school on Wednesday carrying a kitchen knife. The Year 6 pupil, at Dixons Allerton Academy in Rhodesway, took the blade into school earlier this week. A letter was sent to parents of Dixons Allerton pupils on Wednesday to alert them of the “serious incident” which had occurred at the school and required police int...

The mural at the University of Bradford A 1960s MURAL at the University of Bradford will be retained after amended plans to clad a building were approved. The work - at the entrance to the Universitys Richmond Building, was designed by artist Joseph Mayo in 1964, and is thought to be his last surviving mural in the UK. The University recently submitted an application to add cladding to large areas of its buildings to help conserve energy. This included areas of the Richmond Building, an...

THE University of Bradford has scrapped plans to cover a 1960s mural on its city centre campus with cladding. Plans to cover large swathes of the building in cladding, including the mural at the entrance of the Richmond Building, were first submitted in late December. But after a wave of objections to the plans, including from National group The 20th Century Society and the son of the artist behind the work, the University has now amended the plans to retain the mural as a permanent featu...