Surprisingly in this field, I often meet people who do not really love numbers and don’t really like discussing them. In our school role, it is impossible to go through a term without using spreadsheets and data. Just when you thought this was enough, metrics and management ratios are the new buzz words. They comeContinue reading “ICFP and Financial Sustainability – An algebra pop quiz?”
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The ‘Quiet Crisis’ of Less Funding vs Rising Costs
You will recall in the press a few years ago that Headteachers were calling for a funding review because schools believed their budgets were untenable by 2019/20. Like other schools, most have faced these ever increasing pressures and rising costs. Although the phrase ‘perfect storm’ gets over-used, it is perhaps an appropriate way to describeContinue reading “The ‘Quiet Crisis’ of Less Funding vs Rising Costs”
No Glass Ceiling!
Who says you can’t move successfully from one job role to a more senior one, or get that promotion or pay rise? A glass ceiling is a metaphor for the hard to see informal barriers that keep women from achieving these things. The barriers to advancement can be personal or cultural and can be damaging toContinue reading “No Glass Ceiling!”
