We all have responsibility for keeping data secure; be that when we email it, print it out, share information verbally with colleagues or when we save it to portable storage devices. Click on the link below for a short, helpful presentation I created to remind your team of the ways we can keep data secure.
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Ethical Challenges when allocating resources [Notes of a Keynote Address to the Schools North East School Business Management Conference at St James’ Park, Newcastle on 13.06.19] Good afternoon. I’m delighted to be here with you although I am suffering somewhat, having had tooth extraction last week. I am still on painkillers so, somewhat unusually for …
Continue reading "How do you tell right from wrong?"By now you may have heard that I have taken on the role of Chair of the Institute of School Business Leadership. For the next 12 months, I will be steering the work of the board and working to build on the reputation ISBL enjoys with our partners, stakeholders and the wider sector. I am …
Continue reading "A New Role…"We launched the new logo for the Institute of School Business Leadership at NASBM’s final national conference this morning.
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With a week to go until the 2017 General Election, it is crucial that we keep up pressure on politicians. We need to drive home the message that there is a funding crisis in education and that they must reverse the funding cuts. Weasel words and false promises of protection won’t pay staff salaries. The …
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Managing change is a key skill for school leaders. Even more so in the current funding climate where we have to make tough decisions. This blog looks at the importance of communication during times of change. I was talking to Gary my network manager recently about the importance of letting colleagues know when their computers …
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Things move fast don’t they? Staying in the loop, in any education organisation, is becoming harder and harder. Policy changes (and politicians) are coming thick and fast. Increasingly, I find that I spend a significant part of my working day just catching up with movement and changes in the sector. Like many school business leaders, …
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In this article for Optimus Education’s Insight Magazine, I set out the results of a survey I undertook into the mood of the SBM profession; what is worrying them and what they are doing about it.
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All over England, school business management professionals are worried. They want to know if they will have a job at the end of the year. Each day brings a fresh round of claim and counter-claim about the pros/cons of a fully academised school system. Is there a future for single-site school business managers? This is not …
Continue reading "Is there a place for the single-site school business manager in a fully academised system?"SBMs have more impact when they join together
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