A guide to leadership alchemy
Hayley Dunn makes a case for SBLs to be part of the leadership top table Retail guru and ‘queen of shops’ Mary Portas knows a thing or two about alchemy. I’m enjoying her book Work [read more]
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The benefits of benchmarking with Caroline Collins
I’m sure most school business managers have an area of work, or a task, that they really enjoy. It might be budget setting or the year-end close down, staff restructuring or, even, the health and [read more]
School land sales make Walsall Council £4 million
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the Express & Star The authority has sold off 41 plots since January 2013, raking in £6,983,937 with nearly £4m of that coming from former school land, Express [read more]
Neil Watkins on procurement perfection and frameworks
When you consider the escalating restrictions on budget, the pace of technology evolution and rising costs, schools constantly say that choosing and buying well is an increasingly difficult process. Neil Watkins, director of education sector [read more]