Let’s Not Throw the Baby Out

The Editorial for issue 8.6 of School Leadership Today - Let's Not Throw the Baby Out

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Leadership

Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential

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Schools are more tightly regulated than ever, facing pressure to get good exam results and Ofsted grades or face being taken over by a MAT. Many schools have felt the need to narrow their curriculum and focus relentlessly on test outcomes in response. The government has encouraged schools to collaborate with each other to share expertise and to support schools that are struggling. 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Many argue that this now demands greater consistency and self-policing. 60 per cent of survey respondents working in academies agreed that academisation had had at least some positive benefits, 69 per cent of respondents working in maintained schools reported there were no benefits to becoming an academy, especially when weighed against the additional responsibilities. The threat of forced academisation had created a sense of fear that if their performance were to drop they would be ‘taken over’ by a MAT, which would impose standardised systems and a narrow curriculum. Some schools were choosing to form or join ‘local MATs’ to pre-empt external take over. With academisation, powers of school oversight are moving from local to national government. This process has been uneven and often fraught. 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Leadership

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