Strategic Planning for Secondary Headteachers: Working to close the digital divide

Strategic Planning for Secondary Headteachers: Working to close the digital divide   As a secondary school headteacher, we know there are many challenges that occupy your time, such as safeguarding and security, funding pressures, improved inclusion, and developing pupils' o...

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Colin Jackson CBE

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Keynote | Alastair Campbell

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Alastair Campbell

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Perfect match

At 16, I started my first ‘proper job’ for the local authority. Hidden among pages of the new employee paperwork, I came across information from the trade union. Having gained little (if any) knowledge from my schooling about trade unions I asked my dad if I should join. This ...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Spring-term/Perfect-match 26/02/2024 14:45:00

Joint union response to STRB report and Government response consultation

ASCL, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU and Community have jointly responded to the consultation on the Government’s proposals for implementing the recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body 34th Report 2024. The response, which is attached , sets out the united view of the unions ...

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/Joint-union-response-to-STRB-report-and-Government 07/10/2024 00:00:00

Driving Strategic Change: A closer look at the SEND Leadership Summit

by Margaret Mulholland , ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist In an era of increasing pressure on education budgets, evolving policy frameworks, and a growing demand for specialist support, the Tes SEND Show returns this October with renewed purpose: to empower, inspire an...

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What kind of authority is given to headteachers and how should they use it?

At this year’s Annual Conference, ASCL launched a year-long project on Ethical Leadership in Education - you can read more about the background to this in Carolyn Roberts' article Shared Values in issue 96 of Leader magazine. This is the fourth in a series of eight bl...

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What values may be assumed in an evolutionary system?

At this year’s Annual Conference, ASCL launched a year-long project on Ethical Leadership in Education - you can read more about the background to this in Carolyn Roberts' article Shared Values in issue 96 of Leader magazine. This is the seventh in a series of eight b...

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Well Schools: What is the experience like for a student?

By Ian O’Flynn, Assistant Principal, Crown Hills Community College , Leicester, and Youth Sport Trust advocate. I have been at Crown Hills Community College, in the heart of the city of Leicester, for four years now. It has proudly kept its title of ‘Specialist Sports Coll...

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