Last year, the then Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick prompted a fierce backlash when he described an area of Birmingham as “one of the worst integrated places I’ve ever been to”, and “as close as I’ve come to a slum in this country”. My recent visit to Handsworth, with Central Region Schools Trust CEO […]

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Jo Rowley never planned to be a deputy headteacher. Now she’s the first deputy in decades to serve as president of her union, the Association of School and College Leaders. “I’ve always just moved on to other things because I’m interested in them, and I think I can play a valuable part in that role,” […]

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When Dr Jenny Blunden took charge at her Cornish trust, its three schools were ‘broken’. But in a fight against low aspirations, the CEO has added successful schools and continues to battle for them as budgets remain squeezed

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