March 2018 | Governors For Schools

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26th March 2018

Governors for Schools is looking to engage 5000+ volunteers this year. Here, CEO Louise Cooper speaks to Jo Hayward from BBC Radio Leicester on…

22nd March 2018

The number of local authority maintained secondary schools in deficit has risen to 26.1%, up from 8.8% three years ago. Schools in the south…

22nd March 2018

Statistics released by the Department for Education show that there has been a rise in the number of pupils taken out of school to…

Learn about Amanda Timcke’s first hand experience of becoming a school governor

Amanda Timcke is a commercial property solicitor at Birketts, Ipswich. “I became a governor of a primary school in Suffolk in 2012 following…

8th January 2020
Promoting better physical and mental health in schools – What can governors do to help?

Concerns over childhood obesity are never far from the headlines. Pupils today experience increasing stress in school from a number of sources –…

26th November 2019
Challenge Accepted: Sally

Sally Barrett volunteers as a governor in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. “I recently retired from teaching after 33 years and during my time in education…

31st October 2019
Challenge Accepted: Shirley

“I’d been thinking about becoming a school governor for a while. I hadn’t been a governor when my daughters were at school and…

25th October 2019
Challenge Accepted: Carol

Carol Shutkever is a trustee of a multi-academy trust in Hertfordshire. “Stepping down from my full time role as a lawyer to do…

23rd October 2019