School business managers need to be agile, focused and have clear goals in mind if they are to successfully tackle the multitude of challenges they now face, says Hayley Dunn, finance director at Codsall Multi-Academy [read more]
ISBL is on a mission: to ensure professional recognition for school business professionals. At the heart of this is ensuring that skills and knowledge are up-to-date As professionals, we are responsible for both developing and demonstrating the [read more]
When it comes to recruiting teachers it’s no secret that the talent pool is shrinking. We recently wrote about succession planning – the overpowering message was that when it comes to recruitment and retention – [read more]
Succession planning is essential to ensuring effective leadership throughout the school eco-system; integral to this is having a plan that extends into the future to cope with anticipated – and unexpected – changes to personnel. We consider the [read more]
Are you supporting the professionalisation journey – both for yourselves and your profession? Having joined the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) in October 2017, our new executive director of professional development has spent the [read more]
Are you aware of the DfE funding available for clerk training and the new programmes that launched in February 2018 that attract this funding? The Professional Clerking Programme is a new, nationally available development opportunity designed [read more]
Nickii Messer was one of the first school business managers and is now an experienced consultant who delivers training to SBMs at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). In an edition of EdExec she shared her journey through [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen in Tes The DfE has also announced providers of updated national professional qualifications for middle leadership, senior leadership and headship, Tes reports. A new national qualification for academy trust leaders [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen in TES Sir Andrew Carter calls for a rethink on schools’ roles in awarding education degrees, TES reports. The government should consider allowing schools to have a greater role in [read more]
To CSBM or not to CSBM? Kaylie Wells, assistant business manager at a Cornwall school, shares the SBM journey that led her down the CSBM path, as well as the work it entails The level [read more]
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