Schools Week: How MATs want to be inspected - a look at evidence submitted by big MATs to the Education Select Committee.
MAT CEO recruitment issues (TES): How valuable is it to take exactly the same techniques used to identify, interview and select accountants, technologists or sales staff and simply transpose them on to the schools market?....CEO of a large and widely criticised MAT complained that his trust had not been given sufficient advice and guidance by government on how to grow effectively.'
Schools Week: Institute of Education and Deloitte (UCL) - executive leadership training 'nine-month programme aimed at helping senior staff expand their academy trusts.'
Julie Mercer, a partner at Deloitte, said: 'We know from our organisational health check work with MATs that many do not have the financial, organisational and governance expertise needed to support sustainable growth at scale.' (Deloitte is employed by the EFA to handle/manage and validate MAT annual returns.)
Joining/starting a MAT?
A piece in the Guardian called 'Joining a multi-academy trust is like marriage without divorce' - in which three MATs explain why they became MATs - positive and negative.
Schools Week agony aunt talks through the process of identifying a suitable MAT to join.
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