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Supergovernor
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Being a supergovernor without with supereffort!
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What are your New Year Resolutions?
Usually New Year resolutions are only made when one has eaten far too much turkey and drunk far too much mulled wine. With schools just back, I wondered what governors New Academic Year resolutions were. Maybe they’re simply to spend more time in school, or maybe something a little more off the wall. Mine? To [...]
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Do You Feel Exploited as a School Governor?
I ran into this interesting article a few days back: “We’re exploited: says school governor.” What do you think? Can you be exploited in a voluntary position? Are school governors really exploited? I think in some ways it’s the reverse side of a discussion we had on this blog a while ago about whether school [...]
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So Your GCSE Results Weren’t What You Hoped For … Now What?
There’s nothing more soul crushing than eagerly awaiting your school’s exam results, only to be disappointed. Now you know you’ll have Ofsted on your back, and the Local Authority before you even think about the disappointed parents and kids. What’s done is done. But what can you do about it now to make next year [...]
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Why Not have a Student as a Governor?
I was interviewing for a sales post this morning, and on the guy’s CV I’d noticed that he’d been a governor while still a student at his school. He was over 18 and had full voting rights, just like any other governor. What an interesting approach to student voice I thought – is this something [...]
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10 Ways You Can Negotiate Better Deals from Suppliers
Does Best Value really just mean getting 3 quotes and picking the cheapest/best? I’m reading a really interesting book at the moment called Secrets of Power Negotiating and it’s been making me think how useful negotiating skills could be as part of a school’s efforts to get better value for money. Some of the techniques [...]
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