Edward Vickermann from The Freeston Business & Enterprise College in Normanton, West Yorkshire, has won the national SSAT Outstanding New Teacher of the Year Award, sponsored by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT).

Chinese mandarin becomes mainstream GCSE option

Mandarin Chinese has become a mainstream option for students choosing languages at GCSE thanks to new resources developed by the SSAT with Pearson Education. The resources, tailored to the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese, make the language more accessible to both teachers and students.

Nottingham school first to gain national community award

Ashfield School in Nottingham has given the new Investing in Community Engagement (ICE) quality mark, developed by the SSAT to celebrate the excellent work schools do to engage with their local communities.

School guide ‘highly commended’ at awards night

A special guide for teachers to help support pupils undergoing cancer treatment has been deemed as ‘excellent’.

The academies programme is making a real difference

SSAT's Chief Executive, Liz Reid, responds to the announcement today by the DCSF, “200th academy opens a year early as ministers set out new plans to open up programme to new sponsors”.

An award to celebrate outstanding achievement

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is delighted to sponsor the Outstanding Adult Learner in a Specialist School award for the second year in 2009 as part of Adult Learners’ Week. This award celebrates the outstanding achievements of adult learners in specialist schools and academies and highlights how education can broaden horizons and transform lives.

Students have chance to attend China event

Students are to be given the opportunity to listen to leading experts on China and learn about the country’s economy, history and environmental policies.

Ed Balls announces new network of co-operative schools

Schools Secretary Ed Balls has given a further 114 schools the green light to join the Trust Schools Programme. Elizabeth Reid, Chief Executive of the SSAT, welcomes the announcement.

First iNet Wales national education conference

200 teachers will meet on 16 October to identify and share best practice on how they can raise standards for all young people in Wales and celebrate the success of Welsh schools.

Congratulations on GCSE success

SSAT's chief executive, Elizabeth Reid congratulates students and staff for achieving the best ever GCSE results this year.

Annual lecturer calls for fresh look at schooling

At the SSAT annual lecture, the Chief Executive of the RSA, Matthew Taylor, called for a fresh look at schooling and what needs to be done to create the citizens of tomorrow who, he says, will have to be more engaged, more self reliant and more ‘other-regarding’.

SSAT responds to White Paper

SSAT's Chief Executive, Liz Reid, responds to the White Paper 'Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future'.

Rise in ‘all-through’ schooling

Twenty academies will have places for primary and secondary school pupils from this September, as a result of growing enthusiasm for all-through education.