?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Leadership+in+multi-academy+trusts&rft.creator=Male%2C+T&rft.description=There+has+been+an+accelerating+policy+shift+in+England+towards+a+system+led+improvement+process+for+compulsory+education%2C+based+on+the+principle+of+schools+having+greater+autonomy.+This+government+strategy+has+seen+the+rapid+and+further+intended+growth+of+academies+which+are+funded+directly%2C+with+no+statutory+responsible+for+accountability+to+local+government.+This+radical+policy+has+fundamentally+changed+the+concepts+of+school+governance+and+leadership+within+the+country%2C+with+the+preferred+structure+for+supporting+individual+schools+becoming+the+creation+of+Multi-Academy+Trusts+(MATs).+In+this+model+groups+of+schools+are+to+be+joined+through+the+establishment+of+a+trust+which+oversees+the+management+of+their+prescribed+educational+provision+through+a+corporate+structure.+The+nature+of+the+national+school+system%2C+with+its+concomitant+structures+of+governance%2C+leadership+and+management%2C+is+undergoing+radical+change+which+means+that+the+direction+and+control+of+compulsory+education+is+now+to+be+enacted+by+these+trusts+within+a+fairly+loose+accountability+structure+from+central+government.+This+paper+reports+on+the+early+stages+of+research+into+leadership+within+MATs+which+explores+the+issues+and+challenges+they+face+as+they+take+on+the+strategic+ambitions+of+central+government+in+this+emerging+era.+The+data+that+informs+the+findings+from+this+research+are+being+gathered+from+participants+in+an+open+access+development+programmes+being+run+by+the+UCL+Institute+of+Education+for+leadership+teams+from+MATs.+The+programmes%2C+which+commenced+in+November+2016%2C+involves+medium+size+MATs+of+between+5+and+15+schools+and+aimed+not+only+to+support+the+achievement+of+economies+of+scale%2C+but+also+to+build+a+shared+culture+and+improvement+model+that+strengthens+every+school.+There+are+two+groups+of+MATs+involved+in+the+first+phase+of+this+programme%2C+one+of+which+is+comprised+wholly+of+Church+of+England+trusts.+The+participants+in+both+programmes+are+representative%2C+therefore%2C+of+the+new+paradigm+of+school+leadership+and+governance+that+is+emerging+from+the+anticipated+shift+to+academisation+of+the+majority+of+the+nation%E2%80%99s+schools.&rft.subject=Academies%2C+Laedership&rft.date=2017-03-03&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.publisher=International+Conference+on+Educational+Leadership+and+Management&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+++(Proceedings)+International+Conference+on+Educational+Leadership+and+Management.++++(2017)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1543370%2F1%2F2017%2520Leadership%2520in%2520multi-academy%2520trusts%2520-%2520Jamaica%2520conference.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1543370%2F&rft.rights=open