COMMENT In his seminar at EdExec Live, Rob Kelsall of the NAHT will be highlighting the increasingly wide variation in pay and conditions for school business managers, including the vastly differing pay structure Rob Kelsall of the NAHT will be hosting a seminar which will look at the increasingly wide variation in pay and conditions for school
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COMMENT Ian Buss, head of education for Lloyds TSB Commercial, discusses why schools in this ever-changing educational landscape need to collaborate and work more efficiently now more than ever The education sector is going through the biggest shake up in generations. Less than two years ago, the original sponsored academy programme had delivered us a
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COMMENT Schools are obliged to prevent all forms of bullying inside and outside the classroom walls. Yvonne Spencer, partner at leading education law firm Veale Wasbrough Vizards, explains how social media adds to the challenge As bizarre as it may seem, the law requires schools to take reasonable steps to prevent all forms of bullying, including
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MIS consultant Ben Cooper gives a taster for what he will be speaking about at EdExec Live in June IT is playing a bigger role in the daily life of a school – from interactive whiteboards to electronic registers. Many schools and academies spend significant time and money choosing and implementing management information systems (MIS).
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Valerie Thompson of the e-Learning Foundation explains why despite obvious merits of allowing pupils to bring their own device to school, some schools may hesitate There is a growing enthusiasm in the ICT and education community for letting pupils bring their own devices into school. The idea has immediate attraction, particularly reducing the pressure on
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Future First have received a £250,000 grant from the Cabinet Office and a part-matching grant from the foundation Zing to fund free piloting of a new service in 500 schools across England The service will support schools in collecting data from young people before they leave, on an opt-in basis. Through regular text, Facebook and
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COMMENT: In the first in our blog pieces from speakers confirmed for EdExec Live in June, Excel expert Abbott Katz explains how a certain mastery of the common spreadsheet software will make the school business manager’s life a breeze Sure – it’s one thing to be able track and total your receipts and expenses for
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Friday, 22 June 2012 from 9am to 5pm at London’s Business Design Centre There are plenty of events out there for education leaders – many of them good, a lot of them really great. Having been along to a fair few of them ourselves, what we at Education Executive felt was missing from the conference circuit
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