No mention of the 168 people paid six figures at the Harris Federation – and other strange aspects of new Taxpayers’ Alliance report on academy pay
The TPA's registered office, at 55, Tufton Street, in central London. Pic: Alamy.
TPA’s first report on academy leader remuneration, more than two decades after launch of the policy, is full of holes, despite garnering coverage in national media.
It was billed as standing in a long tradition of detailed probing into senior pay in the public sector – but this week’s investigation into remuneration among academy trust leaders by the Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA) had so many holes and curiosities, it is difficult to know where to start.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 11 March 2025
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I looked up Eida, "Jonathan joined us in May 2023, having recently completed his undergraduate degree in Politics and Sociology" so 18m out from Uni - no research experience stated and no education experience. The TPA is such a biased group (and rates at E - completely opaque) in the transparency index.