Male, Trevor;
(2017)
Leadership issues in emerging multi-academy trusts (MATs).
Presented at: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Abstract
There has been an accelerating policy shift in England towards a system led improvement process for compulsory education, based on the principle of schools having greater autonomy. This government strategy has seen the rapid and further intended growth of academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UCT) which are funded directly from central government, with a coterminous ending of the previous statutory relationship between state funded schools and local authorities. This radical policy has fundamentally changed the concepts of school governance and leadership within the country which, after a period of widespread academisation, has led to the preferred structure for supporting individual schools becoming the creation of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs). In this model groups of academised schools are to be joined through the establishment of a trust which oversees the management of their prescribed educational provision through a corporate structure. This paper reports on the first stage of research into leadership within emerging MATs which explores the issues and challenges they face as they take on the strategic ambitions of central government in this era of system reform. The data that informs the findings from this research are being gathered from semi-structured interviews with participants from development programmes being run by the UCL Institute of Education for executive leaders and leadership teams from emerging MATs. The programmes, which commenced in November 2016, involved small to medium size MATs. There are two groups of MATs involved in the first phase of this programme, one of which is comprised wholly of Church of England trusts.
| Type: | Conference item (Presentation) |
|---|---|
| Title: | Leadership issues in emerging multi-academy trusts (MATs) |
| Event: | European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2017 |
| Location: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Dates: | 21 - 25 August 2017 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://eera-ecer.de/previous-ecers/ecer-2017-cope... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Academies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195757 |
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