‘Independent Governor Support (IGovS)’ is a new organisation launched by a group of experienced governors who were formally National Leaders of Governance (NLGs). Up until last summer, NLGs were volunteers, usually chairs, who were appointed by the Department for Education and the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) to work with other chairs to
GovernorHub had a makeover recently…and it pains us to say it, but not all of you loved it 😔 We decided to investigate further: had we gone too far, should we change things back – what was the problem? Lots of teams were involved in the updates but we caught up with Product Manager Ellie
DeborahMcClean is an English teacher living and working in Bristol who we stumbled across after she posted this message on Twitter: It really resonated with us (well, certainly with Jo from the GovernorHub team who also used school governance as a way to ‘upskill’ during parental leave). The NGA’s Educators on Board campaign promotes this
“I really like working in education and knowing that, in some way, I’m benefiting school governors across the country so they spend less time doing mundane admin tasks. That’s a waste of their time .. GovernorHub allows them to focus on the things that really matter.” Joseff joined the GovernorHub team as a developer four
It’s not easy to change long-standing ways of working and replace a database system that’s been in use for many years. So when a local authority decides to adopt GovernorHub for its statutory record keeping and provide board software to all of its schools, we do our best to make the process as smooth and
Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust in Gateshead has 27 academies and is set to grow to 48 schools by July 2022. Director of Governance Jacqui Ridley was looking for a better way to manage governance across the trust so reached out to GovernorHub earlier this year. Jacqui was meticulous during our demo of the system, asking
Currently there’s very little research on the impact of training for governors – but (good news!) that’s about to change thanks to teacher, governor and now PhD student Sarah Chung. We’ve been speaking to Sarah to find out more about her research and how governors can get involved. Firstly Sarah, what’s your background and how
We’re always tweaking and updating GovernorHub to make sure it’s working well for you. In case you’ve missed any of the recent changes, here’s our latest round up. Historical members It used to be a case of ‘remove’ someone from your board and their details disappear into the ether (well… unless you’d written them down).
It’s been three months since the video of a chaotic Handforth Parish Council meeting went viral and made Jackie Weaver an unlikely star. While most viral ‘hits’ last five minutes, Jackie is still getting calls (like this one!) although she claims to have no idea why she’s earned a longer-lasting cult status. “I kind of
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