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Trusts are hiring diversity specialists and challenging “Eurocentric" history, revamping their policies, curriculum and "overwhelmingly white" leadership teams.
SIR – It is perfectly true to say that, in the wake of the Sarah Everard case, women no longer trust the police.
Warnings have emerged over a 'super league' of highly-paid academy trust chiefs with 98 now earning more than Boris Johnson's £158,000 salary. An investigation by Schools Week analysed data from trust's accounts between 2019 and last year, finding that 29 bosses earned a minimum of £200,000. It also discovered that 25 chiefs had pay rises equal to or over £15,000, with an overall 55 per cent receiving wage increases - triple the number of pay cuts. The Harris Federation's Sir Dan Moynihan was named England's best paid trust chief executive with a salary of at least £455,000, followed by...
Princess Helena College is set to close at the end of this academic year - Credit: Archant A 201-year-old boarding school near Hitchin is set to close in the summer after concerns were raised over its current and historic financial position. The historic Princess Helena College, a co-educational day and boarding school in Preston, will close at the end of this academic year on August 31. In a letter addressed to parents, Sir Jon Coles, chief executive at United Learning, explained it had been "impossible to make the school financially viable or to successfully identify a buyer". He continue...
Teachers will decide whether students sit traditional papers in test conditions