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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...leadership team was set up to ‘think the unthinkable’. Davies and Ellison (1999) suggest setting up a ‘futures group’. Look at the document in which the two authors list a simple matrix to guide you by clicking on ‘view document’ below. Click on 'view document' below to read Futures Group Matrix View document Another useful tool in understanding the natural...
How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?

...leadership failed to make transformation in the sport a reality. If it had occurred, the society may well have mirrored the transformation in other life arenas. Today, acrimony and aggression are the order of the day. The young feel that the playing fields have not been levelled and symbolically vent their anger on statues of erstwhile colonial leaders. Students at...
Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?

...leadership that do not value them as human beings. Muslims in the West face discrimination, othering and dehumanisation. It may be this sense of being dispensable – in a context of hopelessness, deprivation and rejection – that pushes young people into the embrace of radical movements that promise acceptance, belonging, but above all agency to do something about their...
Moving education in Sri Lanka from equal access to full gender equality
Education & Development

Moving education in Sri Lanka from equal access to full gender equality

...leadership roles; however, these instances are relegated to the school. Images related to men and women’s roles in society, such as work, or family conform to traditional fixed gender roles, thus reinforcing the status quo that although women have full access to education they should still maintain their traditional roles in society in and outside of the home. The...
Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos
Society, Politics & Law

Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos

...leadership challenge demonstrated, a left-wing policy platform does not bring a Labour person close to Corbyn’s ethos. Jeremy Corbyn has shown – admittedly, through a sharply curtailed pre-election tenure – limited interest in providing Labour with a theoretical underpinning. His rhetoric emphasises a moral certainty, based on long-held positions that are more akin...
After Manchester: Pause, and carry on
Society, Politics & Law

After Manchester: Pause, and carry on

...leadership, for a sense of direction to be given to a nation faced with uncertainty. This role falls to the sitting prime minister, first and foremost, and as such, Theresa May took to the steps of Downing Street to address the nation directly. Credit where it is due: this is no easy task. After a gruelling couple of days in the election campaign, where the pressure must...
What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?
Society, Politics & Law

What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?

...leadership for major infrastructure projects” and “effective public sector procurement” to support industry and innovation, gently informing the Chancellor that corporation tax cuts were not enough. Expect, too, some appeals to “abnormal times” to stave off Osborne’s own fiscal charter, which would restrict public borrowing to fund investment. The government...
Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Society, Politics & Law

Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards

...leadership and management to account – will be done by “professionals”. The proposals to remove the requirement to have elected parent governors on boards risks alienating the very communities whose interests the board purports to represent. It is a grave error of judgement on the part of the government. The role of parent governors Defining what elected parents do...