Oct
06
Saturday, 06 October 2018, with 2 comments
Even though women dominate the workforce across all sectors of education there still remain gender inequalities, particularly at senior leadership level. Since its inception I’ve been wanting to join #WomenEd to listen to and learn from candidates’ experiences of being interviewed by governing boards, and if they’d have me to talk about women in school governance.
Sep
27
Thursday, 27 September 2018, with 0 comments
NGA and Tes have been carrying out a joint survey on all things school governance since 2011 and it has been my privilege to lead on this for the past two years. Over five thousand governors, trustees and academy committee members took the time to respond to this year’s survey and our thanks go out to each of them.
Sep
14
Friday, 14 September 2018, with 0 comments
Big data gives us the start of the conversation, not the end; I remember when progress 8 replaced 5 A-C’s everyone welcomed it as an improvement. But a few years on, its shortcomings are now becoming obvious. It is providing an excuse to narrow options and is more difficult to achieve in disadvantaged areas. Every alternative had other downsides – and so we came to the conclusion neatly summarised by the adage “when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure”.
Sep
10
Monday, 10 September 2018, with 1 comments
Governing boards have the role of ensuring that the school meets its statutory responsibility to teach pupils RE. In a new blog, Emma Knights outlines recommendations from the final report of the Commission on RE which sets out a National Plan to ensure that all pupils receive their entitlement to a high quality academically rigorous and rich study of religious and non-religious worldviews.
Aug
30
Thursday, 30 August 2018, with 1 comments
For a number of years, NGA has been highlighting concerns that we can concentrating the power in academy trusts in the hands of too few people (their members) and in some cases boards which are distant from their schools and communities. We are therefore pleased that Dr Andy Allen has offered to share a model he has been studying - a look at a Co-operative Academy through the research lens of empowered participatory governance.