Sentences with phrase «ncsl school business management»

As a School Business Management support advocate for the National College for School Leadership, Kerry leads one of the college's demonstration projects aimed at highlighting the role of the school business director.

Professional development is clearly not a once only activity and even well - qualified school business management professionals need to regularly update their technical and core managerial and leadership competencies to respond to the new challenges they face.

Changes to School Business Management Qualifications The School Business Management (SBM) programmes run by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) have been instrumental in developing the skills and leadership potential of the profession, training over 11,500 since their introduction in 2002.

Many senior school business management professionals find themselves on call long after 5.00 pm, are now working across groups of schools, are responsible for a wider range of school functions and larger, more dispersed teams, and alongside greater autonomy and responsibility, face greater scrutiny and public accountability.

NASBM provides a wide range of training for school business management professionals at all stages of their career.

Equally however, a greater market can result in greater variation in quality and we would advise all school business management professionals to consider carefully their choice of provider to ensure that they receive the best training.

For more about the college's school business management programmes and the work done by Kerry and her colleagues, go to www.nationalcollege.org.uk / sbm

Despite the changing role of NCTL, the government's commitment to ensuring that the role of school business managers remains as a critical element of effective school leadership and school improvement has been signalled by the launch of the school business management national scholarship scheme.

The education sector is changing rapidly and the life blood of every school is reliant on the quality and contribution of its school business management professional.

Stephen Morales, Chief Executive of NASBM, said: «This launch marks a new chapter for the School Business Management profession.

«On behalf of everyone at Mind I'd like to say a huge thank you to the National Association of School Business Management for choosing to support Mind.

Following a national consultation across all sector stakeholders and considerable input from school business management professionals; the National Association of School Business Management (NASBM) will launch the national professional standards framework at its national conference on Wednesday 18 November 2015.

Kirsty Cumming, marketing manager at Schoolcomms, said: «Communication, organisation and process driven efficiency is at the heart of good management and that's why we are so keen to support NASBM and School Business Management professionals in what looks to be another first class conference and professional networking event.

The National Association of School Business Management (NASBM) has launched of Professional Standards for school business management practitioners, providing a national blueprint describing core responsibilities, technical specialist disciplines, leadership and management behaviours and ethical expectations.

Childcare and Education Minister Sam Gyimah said: «School business management plays a vital role in helping us achieve our aim of educational excellence everywhere, by enabling schools to be more innovative and autonomous, and by making sure money is spent as efficiently as possible.

Delivered in partnership with the DfE, ESFA, OFSTED, STA, ICO, CCS and major sector associations such as FASNA, ASCL, NAHT, ISBL and NGA, this is the leading education policy event to support school business management, teaching quality and pupil outcomes.

The two - day conference, is the only two day event solely focused on the needs of the school business management professional; providing a wealth of keynotes from educational experts and practical workshops from practitioners, plus a 90 strong exhibition running alongside it.

Never before has the blueprint for school business management been defined in its totality — until now.

The standards, which are not mandatory, set out the «core and specialist areas of competence» required to be successful in the school business management professional role.

In July 2015, Howard was awarded a Fellowship of the National Association of School Business Management and he is also the author of a nationally circulated document on financial planning published by the DfE, Strategic Planning: The Key to Financial Sustainability.

These standards can be used to inform the performance management of school business management professionals.

NAPPS has been welcomed by NASBM (National Association of School Business Management).

A skilled and well - qualified school business management professional on the school leadership team can focus on ensuring the effective use of available financial and human resources, aligned to the school's pedagogical aims and development plan, whilst other members of the team focus on improving teaching and learning.

School Business Management How has the School Business Management (SBM) role evolved over the last two decades and is the profession ready to rise to the challenges presented by this new landscape?

The standards also set out the content of both initial training and continuing professional development for those entering or developing their career in the profession and provide a framework for the development of qualifications and other professional recognition for school business management professionals.

The National Association of School Business Management (NASBM) is not an advocate, for or against, the current landscape.

We would also hope that the standards would be used to inform the performance management of and recruitment school business management professionals.

NASBM will develop these standards in consultation not only with representatives from the school business management profession, but also with head teachers and governors.

Our objectives for the scheme are to: formally recognise and raise awareness of excellent practice and expertise within the profession; encourage the profession to aspire to excellence and higher standards of practice; and improve the practice of school business management by encouraging ongoing participation in professional development.

The advice was written in association with the Technology Advisory group of the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) of which I am vice-chairman, and the National Association of School Business Management (NASBAM).

As recently as the late 1980s, School Business Management was a foreign concept in schools.

The standards framework In response to these new challenges the National Association of School Business Management has developed a national professional standards framework for school business management.

During 2015, we will therefore be developing a set of professional standards for school business management professionals, comparable to those that already exist for other staff in schools.

You can also gain practical advice and assistance as a member of the National Association of School Business Management (NASBM), including the member discussion forums, where you can network with other school business managers undertaking the process.

Our intention is that the standards will set out the core and specialist areas of competence required to be successful in the school business management professional role and assist those currently working in, or aspiring to work in, the school business management profession to perform their role as expertly as possible.

Fellowship scheme As part of our drive to raise standards, we have also just launched our new Fellowship scheme to recognise the most effective and qualified leaders in the school business management profession.

The National College has since trained close to 10,000 practitioners across four broad programmes of study from the Certificate in School Business Management (level 4) to the School Business Director Programme (level 7).

School business professionals are being asked to share their thoughts with the National Association of School Business Management on their experiences in their profession

The new professional standards will also play a role here in informing decisions about appropriate continuing professional development activities for school business management practitioners.

The cluster should be able to recruit and appoint a suitably qualified and experienced school business management professional within the required timeframe, i.e. no later than 20 December 2014.

Applications will be considered from: schools coming together for the first time with the aim of recruiting a school business management professional; schools that already have a school business manager professional who are able to establish a new role to support other schools in an existing or new cluster and enable them to access a school business management professional; and finally existing school clusters with no school business management professional who decide to recruit one.

Less than half of the state - funded primary schools in England currently have access to a school business management professional while over 90 per cent of secondary schools do.

Finally, the cluster must be able to provide support to the new school business management professional to enable them to be successful in their role.

Understanding of the school business management professional role is another consideration.

The «Review of Efficiency in the Schools System» (Department for Education, June 2013) concluded that one of the seven key characteristics of the most efficient schools is that they employ, or have access to, a skilled school business management professional who takes on a leadership role.

As the application deadline for the government's SBM Primary Cluster Grant draws near, which will enable groups of primary schools to take on a school business manager, Liz Walters of the National Association of School Business Management (NASBM) explains how it works

According to The National Association of School Business Management (NASBM), schools could save up to 20 per cent on their administration costs through simple changes in practice.

The impact of post-election funding on school business management is a cause for concern.

With continued support from the DfE, ESFA, OFSTED, STA, CCS and major sector associations such as FASNA, ASCL, NAHT, ISBL and NGA, this is your opportunity to hear from over 100 speakers, across 11 CPD certified theatres, on the topics that are affecting your school business management, teaching quality and pupil outcomes, including:

Negotiating contracts and managing supplier relationships can be a daunting prospect, particularly for school business management professionals facing considerable pressure to secure the most cost effective deal whilst ensuring excellent service delivery.