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What multi-academy trust (MAT) finance officers need to know about the new Academy Trust Handbook

What multi-academy trust (MAT) finance officers need to know about the new Academy Trust Handbook

It’s not often that an official document for people in education gets shorter and simpler.But that’s the objective of the latest edition of the Academy Trust Handbook, just published by the

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What school finance teams need to know as government removes barriers for church-led academies

What school finance teams need to know as government removes barriers for church-led academies

It’s been known for some time that the government wants all schools to become part of multi-academy trusts (MATs).

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What multi-academy trusts need to know about finance and cloud accounting

What multi-academy trusts need to know about finance and cloud accounting

Multi-academy trusts will need to know about cloud accounting under new government guidance. The government has laid down the knowledge, skills and behaviours it wants to see in the Chief

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What we learned from BETT 2023

What we learned from BETT 2023

BETT 2023 – billed as the world’s leading education technology (EdTech) show drew around 40,000 people to ExCeL London. iplicit's education lead, Alex Middleton, reported on the trends that

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Multi-Academy Trust Summary Evaluations (MATSEs) and how they affect the finance team

Multi-Academy Trust Summary Evaluations (MATSEs) and how they affect the finance team

Although they are performed by Ofsted, the assessments carried out on multi-academy trusts (MATs) are a different beast from the inspections that individual schools have become used to.

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Education finance software isn't making the Grade!

Education finance software isn't making the Grade!

One in five finance leaders working in multi-academy trusts rates their existing finance software as inadequate.

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