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Issue 16.3 - Managing Schools Today

Leadership

Nice financing, shame about the design

PFI can seem an attractive way to fund the rebuilding of schools, says Andrew Beard, but why do so many designs end up uninspiring and second-rate?

  • 19 Jul 2017
  • 24mins
Leadership

Strategic leadership Part five: Tackling behaviour

This is the fifth in a series of six features, produced in conjunction with Capita Education Services, which together will provide schools with a comprehensive plan of action to achieve their long-term improvement goals.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Leading with behaviour

Geoff Moss and John Bayley round off MST's innovative series on behaviour management with their conclusions from 15 years of work in the field.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

This time it’s personal

One-to-one performance coaching is all the rage in the private sector, but as Annette Fillery-Travis explains, the technique could be a boost for teachers’ professional development too.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Someone to lean on

Leadership mentors are proving an invaluable guide to trainees finding their way through courses. Nick Sparks and Jackie Switzer explain.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Better testing, better learning

Opinions about testing are numerous – good ideas for improving it scarce. Sarah Tough and Richard Brooks of the Institute for Public Policy Research take the debate forward with these radical but practical suggestions.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Pull yourself together

MST’s user guide to Every Child Matters continues as Maxine Froggatt looks at how school leaders can plan the way ahead in collaboration with other local children’s services managers.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Sorting out the cyberbullies

One downside to new technology is an alarming growth in virtual harassment. Mark Blois and Vicky Lapins consider how schools can respond now that bullying has gone digital.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Two into one will go

School mergers are increasingly a fact of life, but over half result in a sustained decline in academic standards. Russell Hobby looks at how schools can join up and avoid the post-merger slump.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins
Leadership

Wise council?

Beset by criticism and viewed with scepticism by the unions, can Britain’s teaching councils ever win the same respect as their counterparts in law and medicine? Richard Willis investigates.

  • 15 Feb 2007
  • 24mins