“Choosing a consultant or procurement organisation to sort out catering is difficult because they all seem the same” This is about as accurate as saying all multi-academy trusts and children are the same! MATs come together for many reasons including educational improvement, sharing best practice and financial efficiency. Becoming a MAT is a journey towards improving pupil outcomes rather than…
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch” (or “free” frameworks or “free” buying organisations/clubs) A “free lunch” is believed to refer to the nineteenth-century practice in American bars of offering a “free lunch” to entice drinking customers. The more unhealthy, salty and fatty food the customer eats for “free”, the longer he/she stays at the bar, the more thirsty…
Matriculate Consulting are proud to be sponsors and supporters of the Mad March Hare event madmarchhare.org.uk/ On Sunday 25th March 2018-the eleventh year of this fabulous event- hundreds of entrants will head off from Lydiard Park Academy, Swindon on a 5k or 10K route raising money for Breast Cancer Now. After the event, many entrants, spectators and volunteers tuck in…
Chancellor George Osborne has used his Budget speech to say all schools in England will become academies and extend the school day. Schools must become academies by 2020 or have official plans to do so by 2022, he told MPs. The proceeds of a sugar tax on fizzy drinks will boost sport in primary schools, while secondaries will get funds…