Educational experience

Build bridges If I were appointed as the new Secretary of State for Education, I hope I’d have the sense to do exactly what Bridget Phillipson is doing so well and build bridges quickly with experts across the breadth of our profession. Recognising publicly that education ...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Autumn-term/Educational-experience 08/10/2024 15:03:12

Tutorial 7

Tutorial 7 Introduction This tutorial, led by Tim Gilson, will consider a number of issues from Content Area 6 Increasing Capability, all of which are assessed in Task 1. The background material for this tutorial is in  Content Area 6 Increasing Capability (Part1): Sta...

/professional-development/Events/Resources/NPQEL-cohort-4/ASCL-NPQEL4/Tutorials/Tutorial-7 01/02/2021 11:09:14

Well Schools: What is the experience like for a student?

By Ian O’Flynn, Assistant Principal, Crown Hills Community College , Leicester, and Youth Sport Trust advocate. I have been at Crown Hills Community College, in the heart of the city of Leicester, for four years now. It has proudly kept its title of ‘Specialist Sports Coll...

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Guidance: Making significant changes to an academy

By way of a summary, a ‘significant change’ to an academy requires Secretary of State consent, and often variation of the academy’s Funding Agreement as well.   The trust must comply with the current version of the ESFA’s Academies: Making significant changes or closure...

/Leader/Issues/2025-Spring-term/Guidance-Making-significant-changes-to-an-academy 10/03/2025 11:02:47

Tutorial 12

Tutorial 12 Introduction This tutorial, led by Patsy Kane, supported by Malcolm Trobe, will look to bring together the key elements of leading a group of schools.   The way the DfE set out the curriculum areas and assessment objectives for the NPQEL qualification compa...

/professional-development/Events/Resources/NPQEL-cohort-4/ASCL-NPQEL4/Tutorials/Tutorial-12 09/03/2021 14:01:17

ASCL calls for rethink of inspection and accountability reform

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has today submitted responses to consultations from Ofsted on improving the way it inspects education and from the Department for Education on school accountability reform.

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June 2025

27 June 2025 (including Ofsted inspection changes, industrial funding, Academy Trust Handbook, ASCL survey, Teacher retention incentives, EHC plans, ASCL pay policy and appraisal policy principles, Ofsted report on AI, DfE webinar on wraparound childcare, ASCL Council NE ...

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Business Matters

September 2025 (including details of the next Business Leader Online Forums, LinkedIn professional leadership community, Business Brunch podcast, support staff pay award, SSSNB consultation response, narrowing the digital divide consultation, Academy Trust Handbook, Colle...

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Interconnected leadership

I began my teaching career in 1991 in Rotherhithe, South East London in a school that was led by a superb headteacher, Norna Moses. It was the conversations I had with Norna that gave me the confidence to seize opportunities as they arose and take on responsibility beyond the ...

/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/Interconnected-Leadership 09/11/2023 09:58:16

Breakfast clubs in primary schools: a no-brainer?

By Annette Montague, Chief Education Officer, Greenwood Academies Trust What’s not to like? Of course, all parents will be attracted to the principle of having childcare available at their child’s school.  If you stop anyone in the street and ask, ‘Do you think having free ...

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