Headship is changing fast. The growth of federations and multi-academy trusts, and the concurrent emergence of executive and multi-school leadership, threatens to break the promise of autonomy that has been central not just to the substance of headship (and governorship), but to its ideology – the basis on which it has been sold.
This broken promise risks becoming education’s own mis-selling scandal and, if left unacknowledged, will have a profound short-term impact on the recruitment and retention of heads.
The broken promise of autonomy for heads in multi-academy trusts
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