Should a university school of education be involved quite this closely with an academy chain?
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How can the head of a university school of education also be the chief executive of a multi-academy trust?
The thought occurred after I came across what is the closest relationship I can remember seeing between an academy chain and its higher education partner.
During a trawl of a lengthy freedom of information response, given to a parent concerned about the forced academisation of Moulsecoomb primary in Brighton, interesting information, giving the title of one of the trusts involved in this controversy, jumped out at me.
Dr John Smith, it said beneath one of his emails, is chief executive of the University of Brighton Academies Trust (UoBAT), the chain which had been selected earlier this year by the government’s Regional Schools Commissioner to take over Moulsecoomb, only to swiftly pull out.
Dr Smith is also head of the school of education at the University of Brighton itself.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 2 December 2019
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