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Emerging trends for the school business manager

A report looking at how the role of the school business manager is evolving, has highlighted some worrying trends, says Russell Dalton

Last year, an article in SecEd said that “school business managers are as important in keeping schools running as other senior leaders are in keeping teaching and learning on track” – The evolving role of SBMs, SecEd, January 2014.

A new report out this week really underlines the rise of the school business manager (SBM) within secondary schools. I was part of the Advisory Group for the research, which was undertaken by Every for Education, a school business management system, and had the support of the National Association of School Business Management (NASBM).

The report provides a very useful update on the SBM role and how it is changing and evolving.

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