Public Accounts Committee on academies
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School funding Executive pay Excessive pay Academy trusts
  • Mar 25, 2022
Best-paid trust CEOs’ wages rise fastest, but some rein in pay
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  • Mar 25, 2022
ASCL responds to PAC report on academy trust finances
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  • Mar 25, 2022
Multi-academy trusts pay record number of staff more than £100,000 a year
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Executive pay Excessive pay Academy trusts Accountability
  • Mar 25, 2022
MPs accuse DfE of failing to control academy leaders’ excessive salaries
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  • Mar 25, 2022
Academy pay: DfE has 'no handle' on 'excessive' salaries
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  • Mar 25, 2022
Single-school head becomes second boss to break £300k salary barrier
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Executive pay
  • Mar 21, 2022
Pay for CEOs of largest MATs rises £10k on average
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MATs Executive pay
  • Jan 27, 2022
Pay rises stall for v-cs as rank-and-file staff face freeze
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Executive pay
  • Jan 21, 2022
Academy trust under financial scrutiny cuts CEO’s £225k salary by a third
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Executive pay Academy trusts
  • Jan 8, 2022
Single-school trust with £280k head given finance warning
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  • Nov 19, 2021
Vice chancellor pay exposes "cavernous" gap between staff & management
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Executive pay
  • Nov 12, 2021
Office for Students releases latest analysis on senior staff pay
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Executive pay
  • Nov 12, 2021
Three university bosses raked in a fortune last year as lecture halls sat empty for months during Covid pandemic
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Executive pay
  • Nov 12, 2021
Ex-UCL head Arthur paid £25,000 extra to postpone retirement
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Executive pay Retirement
  • Nov 12, 2021
University bosses paid ten times the average staff salary
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Executive pay
  • Nov 12, 2021
Academy CEO pay ‘name and shame’ policy under review
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Academy trusts Executive pay
  • Sep 24, 2021
Two trusts face spending controls after accounts reveal joint CEO’s double salary
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  • May 29, 2021
Oak bosses’ bid for £41m payday revealed
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Executive pay
  • May 27, 2021
Top 10 highest paid college leaders in 2019/20 revealed
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College leaders Executive pay
  • May 26, 2021
School funding: Concerns over excessive CEO pay, redundancy costs & consultancy fees
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School funding Executive pay
  • May 24, 2021
More evidence needed to defend high salaries for CEOs of academy trusts
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Academy trusts MATs Executive pay
  • May 9, 2021
Professor George Holmes: Bolton University’s paean of praise to its dear (£322,000 a year) leader
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Bolton University Executive pay
  • Apr 29, 2021
‘Truly extraordinary’: v-c’s £322K award gets long justification
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Executive pay
  • Apr 29, 2021
Warning over 'super league' of highly-paid academy trust chiefs
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Executive pay Academy trusts
  • Apr 23, 2021
The emerging ‘super league’ of academy trust CEO pay
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Executive pay Academy trusts
  • Apr 23, 2021
Teacher and leadership pay can no longer be ignored
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Teachers' pay Executive pay Leaders' pay
  • Mar 15, 2021
Seven academy leaders now paid at least £250k
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Executive pay
  • Mar 12, 2021
Salaries of our biggest academy chain chiefs revealed
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Executive pay
  • Mar 12, 2021
Harris spends £750k on the wages of its top two earners
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Executive pay
  • Mar 12, 2021
Don't pay private heads less - pay state heads more
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Headteachers Executive pay
  • Mar 10, 2021
Headteachers are earning £300k and why not? They are worth every penny
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Headteachers Executive pay
  • Mar 9, 2021
Independent review of the HE Senior Staff Remuneration Code
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Executive pay
  • Feb 22, 2021
There is progress on senior remuneration, but more transparency is needed
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Governance Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Feb 22, 2021
Scotland: University chiefs criticised by unions in pay cut row
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Coronavirus Scotland Executive pay University finances
  • Feb 11, 2021
Coronavirus in Scotland: Edinburgh University principal back on full pay after taking cut in crisis
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Coronavirus Scotland University of Edinburgh Executive pay
  • Feb 10, 2021
Academy chiefs' pay rises up to twice that of teachers
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MATs Academy trusts Executive pay
  • Jan 28, 2021
Bonuses and rises boost v-c pay despite voluntary cuts for Covid
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Jan 21, 2021
Almost 50 universities chiefs have kept their fat cat salaries since pandemic began
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Coronavirus Executive pay
  • Jan 11, 2021
Pay rise for academy leader on nearly twice PM's salary
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Leaders' pay Academies Executive pay
  • Dec 8, 2020
Biggest student landlord raises boss’ pay packet to £2.7 million
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Student accommodation Executive pay
  • Oct 28, 2020
Closing trust gave CEO six -figure pay-off
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Executive pay Academy trusts School closures Severance payments
  • Sep 18, 2020
College leader pay: fewer colleges paying over £200K
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  • Sep 17, 2020
Sally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary jobSally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary job
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  • Sep 14, 2020
Sally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary jobSally Hunt paid extra £400K by UCU on leaving general secretary job
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Executive pay Unions
  • Sep 14, 2020
UCU boss pockets £400k payoff a year after lambasting college principals as ‘greedy and hopelessly out of touch’
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Executive pay
  • Sep 14, 2020
Union boss who slammed 'out of touch' vice-Chancellor salaries earned over £500,000 last year
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  • Sep 14, 2020
University union boss took home £530,000
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  • Sep 14, 2020
Scotland: Lecturers’ union UCU laments ‘fat-cat’ pay and costly overseas campuses
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  • Aug 17, 2020
In the news 31 July 2020
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Coronavirus University finances Financial assistance Bailouts Redundancies Unions Pay Working conditions Executive pay USS Pensions
  • Jul 31, 2020
One in 10 academy trusts award £150k pay packages
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Academy trusts Executive pay
  • Jul 22, 2020
Only 40% of 'high-pay' academy trusts agree salary cut
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Academy trusts MATs Executive pay
  • Jul 22, 2020
Universities minister says VC lockdown pay cuts should continue
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay University finances
  • Jul 15, 2020
Trusts must publish £100k-plus salaries on their websites from September
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Academy trusts Executive pay
  • Jun 23, 2020
University of Edinburgh principal and vice chancellor to take 20 per cent pay cut due to coronavirus
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Coronavirus University of Edinburgh Executive pay
  • Apr 23, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: University head takes salary cut amid crisis
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Coronavirus Scotland St Andrews Executive pay University finances Furlough Job retention
  • Apr 23, 2020
Imperial College London warns staff about possible pay cuts
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Coronavirus Executive pay Furlough Job retention Imperial College London
  • Apr 21, 2020
CEO pay 2019: Fewer than 1 in 5 reduce salaries despite government warning
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Executive pay
  • Mar 13, 2020
Do MAT CEOs really work five times harder than NQTs?
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MATs Academy trusts Executive pay Teachers' pay
  • Mar 10, 2020
Undeclared £20k bonus ‘honest error’, claims college boss
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College finances Executive pay
  • Mar 6, 2020
MAT bosses deserve to be handsomely paid
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Executive pay
  • Feb 26, 2020
Michael Spence: chance to lead UCL post-Brexit ‘worth pay cut’
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UCL Executive pay
  • Feb 26, 2020
Academy fat cats' 23% pay rise short-changes us all
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Academies Executive pay
  • Feb 25, 2020
Universities at the crossroads
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Tertiary education Grade inflation Executive pay
  • Feb 24, 2020
Nation is losing faith in universities
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Grade inflation Executive pay
  • Feb 24, 2020
‘Out of touch universities are losing nation’s trust’, Policy Exchange report finds
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Executive pay Grade inflation
  • Feb 24, 2020
Universities at the Crossroads: HE leadership must act to regain the trust of their staff, their communities and the whole nation
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Executive pay Grade inflation
  • Feb 23, 2020
Scotland: Aberdeen University paid its retiring principal almost £900,000
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Scotland Aberdeen University Executive pay Retirement
  • Feb 19, 2020
Aberdeen University repays cash over principal pay-off
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Scotland Aberdeen University Executive pay
  • Feb 18, 2020
UCU Scotland says Aberdeen payment 'unwarranted and unjustifiable'
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Scotland Aberdeen University Executive pay Retirement
  • Feb 18, 2020
Aberdeen told to repay £119K over ex-head’s ‘gardening leave’
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Aberdeen University Scotland Retirement Executive pay
  • Feb 18, 2020
Payout given to retiring principal must be paid back
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Executive pay Retirement Scotland
  • Feb 18, 2020
Warning over race to the top in 'astronomical' MAT pay
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MATs Academy trusts Executive pay
  • Feb 14, 2020
The single academy trusts paying heads £165k+
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Academy trusts MATs Executive pay
  • Feb 13, 2020
Single academy trust probed by DfE still paying £210k+
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Academy trusts MATs Executive pay
  • Feb 13, 2020
DfE property firm’s boss got £30k bonus, despite missed value-for-money target
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LocatED Free schools Executive pay
  • Feb 11, 2020
Tes podcast: Rising MAT executive pay
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Podcast Executive pay
  • Feb 7, 2020
Third of MATs raise £150k+ pay despite DfE probe
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Executive pay MATs Academy trusts
  • Feb 6, 2020
MATs that raised pay after DfE challenge revealed
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Executive pay MATs Academy trusts
  • Feb 6, 2020
Leadership pay: A fait accompli?
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STRB Leaders Pay Executive pay
  • Feb 3, 2020
Harris Federation paying 12 staff more than £150k each
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Executive pay Academy trusts MATs
  • Feb 3, 2020
Weekly news: 31 January 2020
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Industrial action Pensions Pay Working conditions Unions Strikes Redundancies Gender pay gap Migrants Casualisation Insecure contracts Executive pay
  • Jan 31, 2020
CEO pay in the spotlight again as academy boss gets £60k rise
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Executive pay Academy trusts MATs
  • Jan 31, 2020
Pay restraint over for leaders of large academy trusts
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Executive pay MATs Academy trusts
  • Jan 30, 2020
Academy trust probed by DfE on pay gives CEO £33k rise
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Executive pay
  • Jan 29, 2020
In the news - 24 January 2020
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Casualisation Insecure contracts Academics Ethnic minorities Racial inequality Executive pay
  • Jan 24, 2020
Half of elite university bosses handed larger pay packets despite crackdown
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Executive pay
  • Jan 24, 2020
Imperial College London head Alice Gast tops universities pay league with £554,000
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Imperial College London Executive pay
  • Jan 24, 2020
Chiefs at Scotland's top universities branded 'out of touch' over six-figure salaries
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Scotland Executive pay
  • Jan 23, 2020
Chiefs at Scotland's top universities branded 'out of touch' over six-figure salaries
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University of Edinburgh Scotland Executive pay
  • Jan 23, 2020
Scottish university bosses branded 'out of touch' over soaring principal salaries
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Scotland Executive pay
  • Jan 23, 2020
CEO’s £200k salary ‘epitomised’ trust’s financial failures
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Executive pay Academies MATs Finances Deficit
  • Jan 17, 2020
Shock £1m deficit at trust where ousted CEO got £25k bonus
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Academies School finances Executive pay Deficit
  • Jan 17, 2020
Investigation: Highest principals’ pay plummets
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Colleges Executive pay
  • Jan 17, 2020
Academy bosses take pay cuts of up to £50,000 a year after crackdown
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Jan 10, 2020
Single-school academy trust head's pay soars to £280k
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Academies Executive pay
  • Jan 10, 2020
Pay freezes and cuts as academy executive pay comes under scrutiny
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Academies Executive pay
  • Jan 10, 2020
Highest-paid college principal retires with immediate effect
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Executive pay
  • Jan 3, 2020
Head of ‘socialist Eton’ gets another pay rise to up to £275,000 despite government warnings
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Eton Executive pay
  • Dec 20, 2019
Pay rise means Holland Park head gets £270k to run one school
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Executive pay Academies
  • Dec 19, 2019
In the news 6 December 2019
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Unions Strikes Pensions USS Pay Working conditions Vice Chancellors Executive pay Donations
  • Dec 6, 2019
Academy boss paid £550,000 calls for greater scrutiny of headteacher pay
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Executive pay
  • Nov 15, 2019
Probe high academy pay, says £550k Moynihan
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Executive pay
  • Nov 15, 2019
What are universities hiding about Vice Chancellor pay?
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Executive pay Regulation
  • Oct 29, 2019
ESFA letters to academy trusts about high pay - October 2019
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ESFA Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Oct 17, 2019
ESFA chief warns 12 academy trusts over CEO pay
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ESFA Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Oct 17, 2019
Edinburgh University has most £100k staff pay packets in UK poll
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University of Edinburgh Scotland Executive pay
  • Oct 3, 2019
Nearly 5,000 university chiefs raked in over £100,000 last year as students face sky-high debt
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Oct 3, 2019
Thousands of university staff are earning £100,000 or more
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Executive pay
  • Oct 3, 2019
At least 3,600 university staff take home more than £100,000 a year
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Oct 2, 2019
Boss of cash-strapped school academy chain ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen’, ex-staff claim
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MATs Academies Executive pay Expenses Finance
  • Sep 23, 2019
Boss of failed WCAT ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen for his offices’
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Finances Academies MATs Executive pay Expenses
  • Sep 23, 2019
Head of cash-strapped college spent £150k on luxury hotels, first-class flights and chauffeurs amid job cuts and sixth form closure
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Highbury College Executive pay Leaders Expenses
  • Sep 20, 2019
Highbury College principal charged £150,000 to expenses account
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Highbury College Executive pay Expenses
  • Sep 20, 2019
College headteacher under fire after she spent £150,000 on expenses including nights in luxury hotel
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Highbury College Executive pay Expenses
  • Sep 20, 2019
Julian Drinkall, boss of troubled school chain AET, gets pay rise to £290k
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Executive pay Academies MATs
  • Sep 13, 2019
Top primary heads’ pay in England is highest in the world
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Primary Executive pay
  • Sep 10, 2019
Williamson: No MAT boss should earn more than PM
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Executive pay
  • Sep 6, 2019
Schools should publicly name staff on more than £60k
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Executive pay
  • Sep 2, 2019
The academy trusts paying £150k salaries
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Jul 23, 2019
Funding crisis fails to halt rise in academy £150k pay
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Funding Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Jul 23, 2019
In the news: 19 July
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Unions Strikes Employment contracts Staff dismissal Mismanagement Executive pay Funding
  • Jul 19, 2019
Scottish universities told to rein in principals’ soaring salaries
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Scotland Executive pay
  • Jul 17, 2019
Scottish principals warned to stop taking ‘excessive’ pay rises
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Scotland Executive pay
  • Jul 16, 2019
Payment for university Governors
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Executive pay Governors
  • Jul 12, 2019
Salaries of top academy bosses to be fair, proportionate and justified
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Executive pay
  • Jul 9, 2019
ESFA introduces guidance for academies on setting executive pay
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Executive pay
  • Jul 9, 2019
Setting executive salaries: guidance for academy trusts
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Executive pay
  • Jul 9, 2019
Academy CEOs could see pay cut over poor finances
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Executive pay
  • Jul 9, 2019
Cut CEO pay if your finances deteriorate, DfE tells academy trusts
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DfE Academies MATs Finances Executive pay
  • Jul 9, 2019
In the news 5 July 2019
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Insecure contracts Protests Exploitation Gender pay gap Unions Strikes Redundancies Pay Vice Chancellors Executive pay Prison learning
  • Jul 5, 2019
De Montfort University head who breached rules gets £270k
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De Monfort University Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Jul 2, 2019
University vice-chancellor given £270k payoff after resigning
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Jul 1, 2019
De Montfort University admits financial rule breach
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Jul 1, 2019
Departed De Montfort University vice-chancellor gets £270,000 payout
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Jul 1, 2019
Regulator finds ‘systemic’ failings at De Montfort after v-c exit
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Vice Chancellors De Monfort University Executive pay
  • Jul 1, 2019
Male heads paid 12 per cent more than women
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Executive pay
  • Jun 27, 2019
DfE crackdown on academy leaders’ pay
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Executive pay
  • Jun 27, 2019
Beyond getting bums off seats – moving forward on executive pay
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Executive pay
  • Jun 24, 2019
In the news 21 June 2019
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay Boycott USS Pensions Strikes Redundancies
  • Jun 21, 2019
VC pay, mental health, TEF4, graduation (podcast)
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Podcast Vice Chancellors Executive pay Mental health TEF4 Graduation
  • Jun 20, 2019
81% of vice-chancellors still allowed to attend meeting that sets their pay
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Vice Chancellors Pay Executive pay Management Salary committee
  • Jun 20, 2019
High-earning college vice chancellors attend meetings which decide their salaries
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Vice Chancellors Pay Executive pay Salary committee
  • Jun 20, 2019
University chiefs let into meetings to set their own pay
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Vice Chancellors Pay Executive pay Salary committee
  • Jun 20, 2019
In the news 14 June
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Colleges Strikes Staff dismissal Employment contracts Student satisfaction Student experience survey University admissions Executive pay
  • Jun 14, 2019
Objections to Scottish principal’s £282k payoff
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Aberdeen University Principal Executive pay
  • Jun 11, 2019
£3.6m in benefits for training provider director
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Adult education Executive pay Finances Mismanagement
  • Jun 10, 2019
Funding council investigates six figure payment to former Scottish university principal
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Scotland Principals Aberdeen University Finances Executive pay
  • Jun 10, 2019
Plymouth spends £375K on v-c office project while cutting jobs
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay Redundancies Plymouth University
  • Jun 5, 2019
ESFA letters to academy trusts about high pay
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 24, 2019
DfE named and shamed trust for failing to justify CEO pay by mistake
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DfE Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 24, 2019
Almost 100 academy chains ordered to explain 'excessive pay'
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 13, 2019
DfE in fresh effort to get academy chains to cut executive pay
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DfE Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 10, 2019
Government orders non-compliant trusts to reduce excessive salaries
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 10, 2019
31 trusts fail to justify pay – but DfE admits it’s powerless to act
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DfE Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 10, 2019
ESFA letters to academy trusts about high pay
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 10, 2019
Academy schools told to cut pay of heads and chief executives
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • May 10, 2019
'College principals' pay must be grounded in financial pressures'
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Colleges Principals Executive pay Finances
  • Apr 9, 2019
Southampton saves on v-c salary with Mark Smith appointment
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Vice Chancellors Southampton University Executive pay
  • Apr 8, 2019
Best-paid college principals in England revealed
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Colleges Leaders Principals Executive pay
  • Apr 5, 2019
Evidence to the STRB: 2019 pay award for school staff
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STRB Teachers' pay Leaders Executive pay
  • Mar 15, 2019
Universities have lost the country: Here’s how UUK must reform to win it back
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Value for money Funding Executive pay Student support Mental health Grade inflation Free speech Pensions University admissions Unconditional offers OfS Regulation
  • Mar 14, 2019
Universities are 'seen as self-serving oligarchies' over attitudes to pay, free speech and money
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Free speech Value for money Tuition fees Executive pay
  • Mar 14, 2019
Oxford dean accused of trying to remove tutors from salary committee after pay rise request was refused
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Oxford Executive pay Governance Salary committee
  • Mar 5, 2019
Doubts raised over minister’s demand for more English v-c pay probes
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Vice Chancellors Executive pay
  • Mar 4, 2019
Investigation: The highs (and occasional lows) of academy CEO pay
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Mar 1, 2019
DfE urges colleges to report whether they are adopting AoC’s controversial senior pay code
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Colleges Executive pay DfE
  • Feb 27, 2019
Executive pay: the sector is dragging its feet
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Executive pay Regulation
  • Feb 25, 2019
Only one-in-five academy trusts agrees to cut six-figure salaries
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Academies MATs Executive pay
  • Nov 15, 2018