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The Impact School Governors Have On The Gorse Academies Trust

20th March 2019

Anne McAvan is a Director with responsibility for governance at The Gorse Academies Trust in Leeds. It’s Anne’s role to make sure each…

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Angie Cooke from Manchester Metropolitan University, tells us about her school governor experience

13th March 2019

Angie is a Personal Assistant and Administrator at Manchester Metropolitan University in the Research & Knowledge Exchange (RKE) Directorate. We caught up with her…

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International Women’s Day

8th March 2019

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, we caught up with a few of the female team members here at Governors for Schools, to talk…

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University of Suffolk’s Stefanie Thorne, shares her experience as a school governor

27th February 2019

I’ve volunteered as a governor at a primary school under three miles from the University of Suffolk for over five years now. In…

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One third of volunteers are university alumni – Are you supporting your network to drive educational improvement?

19th February 2019

Our partnerships with universities play a major role in tackling the shortfall of school governors across England – but have you thought about the…

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Laura Tanguay, a lawyer at Birketts, shares her experience as a school governor

18th February 2019

What’s your professional background? I studied Law at the University of Sussex and went on to obtain a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies…

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Measuring our impact: How Pro Bono Economics helped us understand the value we bring to volunteers, schools and communities across England

12th February 2019

We know that school governors have a critical job. They set the strategic direction of schools, support and challenge the headteacher, and make…

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The motivation behind being a school governor

1st February 2019

We caught up with Bav Shah, a governor at Woodlands school in Luton and graduate of Nottingham Trent University, to hear about…

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Impact Survey winner Patricia tells us how her school is putting their £1,000 prize money to good use

18th January 2019

We think becoming a school governor is an important and rewarding thing to do, but we wanted to hear our volunteers’ thoughts. So we…

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Impact Survey winner Dominic tells us how his school is putting their £1,000 prize money to good use

16th January 2019

We think becoming a school governor is an important and rewarding thing to do, but we wanted to hear our volunteers’ thoughts. So we…

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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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