Governing our Schools - A report by Business in the Community
Research carried out for Business in the Community by the University of Bath shows that greater responsibility has been devolved to schools, and Governing bodies therefore now carry more responsibility. The challenge is to ensure that the barriers that exist for employees to volunteer as school governors are removed, and this report gives recommendations on how this can happen.
- Date published
- October 2008
- Governing our Schools - A report by Business in the Community [5042kb PDF]
The study found three principal barriers to greater involvement of employees in school governance:
- The need for employers to give their employees more paid time off to participate as governors;
- Misperceptions of who is eligible for participation in school governance (stereotyping governors as parents and older people);
- A general misperception of the role of a school governor, which leads many potential volunteers to overestimate the work involved.
The report includes a foreword by Bob Wigley, who at Business in the Community is
Deputy Chairman and Education Leadership Chairman and a response by Barry
O’Brien, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, who have generously sponsored this publication.
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