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What we learned from BETT 2024, the world’s biggest education technology event

What we learned from BETT 2024, the world’s biggest education technology event

The edtech industry had the chance to showcase its latest innovations to thousands of teachers and school leaders as Bett 2024 got under way. The event, at ExCel London, began with Dame

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How MATs will be expected to handle government finance such as Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF)

How MATs will be expected to handle government finance such as Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF)

All over the country, multi-academy trusts are preparing applications for the government’s Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) – or awaiting the result of one they’ve already submitted. It is the

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Five key takeaways for MATs from the autumn 2023 Schools and Academies Show

Five key takeaways for MATs from the autumn 2023 Schools and Academies Show

The Schools & Academies Show attracted thousands of people from the education sector to Birmingham’s NEC with a programme of inspiring content, policy updates and practical resources. The

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What research tells us about multi-academy trusts’ financial stability

What research tells us about multi-academy trusts’ financial stability

New research has revealed a sharp drop in confidence among the leaders of school multi-academy trusts (MATs) about their financial sustainability. The survey of MAT chief executives shows

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iplicit on track to exceed 100 multi-academy trusts within 18 months of BETT launch

iplicit on track to exceed 100 multi-academy trusts within 18 months of BETT launch

Accounting software rapidly gaining traction among MATs Award-winning finance software platform iplicit is confident it will have more than 100 multi-academy trusts (MATs) as customers by

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iplicit to integrate with leading students’ union management system SUMS

iplicit to integrate with leading students’ union management system SUMS

iplicit's award-winning accounting software is to be integrated with the most comprehensive management system available to students’ unions.

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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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