After a two-year pilot trialling a head of wellbeing in a secondary school saw improvements in healthy eating habits, an increase in the number of staff using gym facilities and improved wellbeing for both staff [read more]
The prevalence and sophistication of cyber-attacks are increasing all the time. With this is mind, we caught up with Neil Watkins, managing director of Think IT, on how schools can best protect their systems from [read more]
Good communication is a vital business skill. It ensures that everyone is on the same page, pulling in the right direction and that the team operates as efficiently as possible. It can be the difference [read more]
‘The times they are a-changin’…’ the Bob Dylan song goes, a certain truth within the school business management profession. How can school business leaders best adapt to a rapidly changing education landscape? Val Andrew, formerly [read more]
Even with ‘little extras’ school budgets remain stretched. For SBMs, who are often ‘time poor’, the need for greater efficiency – and to make savings and secure better value for money – has never been [read more]
The Key for School Leaders has published its 2018 report, The challenges of leading a rural school. In its wide-ranging research it found that, despite accounting for 20% of all schools in England, there’s a [read more]
With mental health and wellbeing issues having a growing impact on school staff and recruitment, we spoke to Jo Blair – HR consultant at School Business Services – about what strategies school leaders can implement [read more]
In the current climate schools must be more environmentally and economically savvy. When it comes to energy a sustainable option is often the best long-term option. Education Executive catches up with energy experts to discuss [read more]
Previously, Stuart Gardner, chief executive of The Thinking Schools Academy Trust, discussed how metacognition, and developing an understanding of how the brain learns, are demonstrably high-impact, cost-efficient ways of improving student progress and attainment. Now [read more]
Not all the savings schools need to make can be made on procurement – or other such ‘usual suspects’. There’s also room for savings to be made in the classroom. Metacognition, and simply understanding how [read more]
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