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Archive: Mar 2018

CEO Louise Cooper on BBC Radio Leicester calling 5000+ volunteers to action!

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…

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More maintained secondary schools go into the red

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…

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Increase in numbers taking holidays during term time

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…

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Latest Posts

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Academy trustees – who are they and what do they do?

    Multi-academy trusts (MATs) make up an increasingly large part of schools across England. But many people don’t know how MATs are…

    16th October 2019

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