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Governors – a new approach

Frustrated by the failings of the current system of school governance, our headteacher diarist suggests a new, more professional approach.

In his fabulous 1956 autobiography The Clown Prince of Soccer, the eccentric post-Second World War Sunderland striker Len Shackleton famously left a blank page for the chapter entitled: What the average director knows about football.

More recently, there were many wry smiles at the humorous publication of Everything I Know About Teaching, a book containing nothing but blank pages and which was attributed to Mr Michael Gove.

With apologies to the late Mr Shackleton and to the joker behind the Mr Gove, er, tome, if I ever had the temerity to write an autobiography, I would steal this idea and retitle it: “What the average governor knows about education.”

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