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The secrets to strong governance

In the face of the many challenges embroiling education, David Hanson looks at why and how strong governance, and good working relationships with headteachers, can help schools to be successful.

We all know education is facing enormous challenges, not just the socio-economic issues that dealing with the most serious recession since the war inevitably brings, but unyielding political pressures also.

Issues such as curriculum and exam reforms and the government’s academies programme, continue to dominate the headlines, as well as performance-related pay and other changes.

Good governance is key to ensuring the success of all schools, independent and state, and the relationships between governors and heads are central in school leadership and management. Strong, co-ordinated leadership is critical in ensuring schools, and their pupils, can continue to prosper and flourish both in the immediate and long-term.

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