Tools:
School business manager development guide
This guide brings together a range of tools to help schools and other organisations who are considering recruiting a school business manager or director, either within a single school or across a group of schools.
The main areas covered are:
- What do we look like? Reviewing your current arrangements for delivering school business management in your setting
- Where do we want to be? Defining your vision for the school business management provision
- How do we get there? How to deliver your objectives
- Review and reflection Evaluating your successes and defining possible areas for improvement
Role of the school business manager
Nine in ten secondary schools and three in ten primaries now have school business managers (SBMs). Find out how effective business management can contribute to your school’s performance. The following pages provide a summary of the school business manager/school business director role and it’s impact on the management and leadership of schools. The SBM development guide has further information on the benefits of the role.
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Why have a school business manager?
School business managers do more than run the budget. They have an ever bigger role to play in the leadership and management of all school resources.
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Profile of a school business manager
Check out what skills and experience make a good school business manager.
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Impact of school business management
School business managers can save schools money and free up headteacher time. But there is increasing evidence that qualified business managers have a direct impact on outcomes for children.
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Status of school business management
As the role of school business manager develops an increasing number of people are seeing it as a sound career move.
Publications
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School Business Management - A quiet revolution, part 2
An summary of evidence showing the development and future of the role of school business managers and the impact they have on schools - part 2 -
School Business Management - A quiet revolution, part 1
An overview of evidence showing the development and future of the role of school business managers and the impact they have on schools - part 1 -
Discover the benefits of school business managers
This publication explains the role of the school business manager and how it can help to free up the time of headteachers -
School business director demonstration projects directory
Provides details of the National College school business director demonstration projects that are taking place across England -
School Business Management Impact and Evaluation Report 2010
This report summarises the College's school business management activities and evaluates their impact on the profession and in schools
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