Tag Archives: School Governor

Why should school governors be members of the NGA?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Carol Woolley

The National Governors’ Association is the only independent representative body for schools governors from all state funded schools (LA maintained schools and academies) in England. It supports local governor associations and governing bodies, lobbies ministers and policy makers on all … Continue reading →

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Summer 2013 DfE timeline now available

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Carol Woolley

The new DfE timeline for school leaders and Governors for the Summer term 2013 is now available. This timeline sets out important and useful information to help you plan ahead, prepare for and implement … Continue reading →

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The Pupil Premium: How schools are spending the funding successfully to maximise achievement

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Carol Woolley

The Pupil Premium was introduced by the Coalition Government in April 2011 to provide additional support for looked after children and those from low income families. The extra funding is made available to schools to help them narrow the attainment … Continue reading →

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Pay is not the only way to raise the standard of school governance

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Carol Woolley

Here at Modern Governor we have been watching with interest the debate going on around paying school governors following Sir Michael Wilshaw’s recent comments In an article in today’s Guardian, Lord Bichard argues It is more critical that governors understand … Continue reading →

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Stockport Governor Conference 2013 “Are we making a difference?”

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Carol Woolley

Modern Governor spent last Saturday in Stockport at the GOVAS/Stockport MBC annual conference for their governors. It was great to meet so many dedicated governors giving up their Saturday to listen to speakers and join in workshops on a whole … Continue reading →

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Could area-wide education boards solve the governance crisis?

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Carol Woolley

This interesting article appeared in the Guardian earlier this week by Nansi Ellis, head of education, policy and research at the ATL. The article advocates the introduction of area education boards. The idea behind such boards is that they would would offer a … Continue reading →

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DfE Statement – School capital funding

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Carol Woolley

Statement reads>> Today I am announcing details of the capital funding of around £4billion that will be made available to create new school places and to carry out maintenance and repair work to existing school buildings. The number of … Continue reading →

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Governors required..

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Carol Woolley

SGOSS – Governors for schools have recently launched a new campaign* aimed at recruiting more school governors called We’re the people (read more in our recent blog post) and the campaign has attracted some media attention and been linked to from a … Continue reading →