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3rd April 2019
Preparing for a visit from Ofsted can feel daunting, but we’ve outlined our top tips for keeping calm and having a smooth inspection to…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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