Matt Hood set to leave CEO role
It comes less than a year after he bagged the permanent role It comes less than a year after he bagged the permanent role More from this theme Recent articles Matt Hood is set to leave his role as CEO of Oak National Academy, less than a year after taking the job on a permanent basis. One of the online school’s co-founders during Covid, Hood had acted as interim chief executive since it controversially became an arm’s-length public body in 2022. Following a year-long recruitment process, it was confirmed he had been appointed to the £120,000-per-year permanent position by the Department for Education last May. But now, it is understood Hood is set to step down in the spring. Schools Week revealed in November that a judicial review of the decision to turn the Oak National Academy into a government quango has been put on hold. The British Education Suppliers Association, the Publishers Association and the Society of Authors say the online lesson provider would pose an “existential risk” to their sector, and that it amounted to an …
