Posted in Accountability, Culture change, Finance, Ideas, Management, Planning, Public Services, Strategic, Unions, honesty on May 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
The challenge of providing a high quality education service at a time when expenditure is growing faster than the available budget means that change, in some form, must take place.
There is a tendency in education to always reflect upon such an issue from the moral high-ground and simply state that more money must be forthcoming! As the person who [...]
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The Educational Institute for Scotland (EIS) - the biggest teaching union in the Scotland have issued a number of press releases over the holiday period.
The last of these was entitled League Table approach and too much Testing remains Harmful to Education, say EIS
“The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has called for a radical rethink on [...]
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Posted in Planning, Unions on Jan 12th, 2006 No Comments »
8.00-9.00 Met with Donald McGillivary and David Scott who represent the Association of Headteachers Scotland. Went through a varied agenda - most action points had been covered from the previous meeting. We looked at the proposals for development planning and I was delighted that two of our most experienced headteachers were generally in favour of [...]
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8.30-9.45am Met with Jennifer Tulloch who runs “The Shed” our pre-vocational centre for S3 and S4 pupils. Jennnifer has done a wonderful job getting this centre up and running with over 200 pupils accessing the facility during the year. However, there is a need for us to reflect upon the future of pre-vocational work in [...]
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8.30-9.50am Directorate Meeting. We had missed Monday’s slot due to my attendance at the ICT Summit. Our meeting scheduled for this coming Monday will be focussing upon the four proposed structures for the department - of which more later.
10.00am Department Briefing
10.10 Senior students from Knox Academy, who included my neice BJ raided the department dressed [...]
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Some domestic/family duties meant that I arrived late - 10.30 am - at Penston House for a combined union/employer meeting aimed at improving the way we work in East Lothian. I think our 5Cs culture will go a long way towards developing the kind of culture which people seemd to be aspiring to in the [...]
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Posted in Unions on Oct 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Popped into Ross High School at 8.00am to check on Helen Alexander's room which had been flooded out before the holidays. With all the rain over the weekend I thought things might have been just as bad again. Fortunately there was repeat of flooding in her office - although there were problems elsewhere in the [...]
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Posted in Bullying, Unions on Sep 29th, 2005 2 Comments »
9.00 - 1030am Chief Officers Group for Children's Services - this is a multi-agency group of lead officers in education, health and social work. A lot of the meeting was taken up with information giving sessions but I raised a couple of points in the course of the morning. Firstly, a paper was tabled about [...]
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In early to make up for not being in on Friday. However, the fact that I can access my e mail at home had enabled me to respond to all my emails last night. There was still plenty to clear.
Meeting of Management Team at 8.30am. Alan Blackie has been on holiday for the past two [...]
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Into work at 7.30am. Bit of backlog of work needing completed. Good news when my 9.00am appointment was cancelled. 10.00am met with Zoe Thomson of Personnel who took me through a number of on-going personnel matters. Im starting to realise why its important that we have clear and well structured personnel policies. All too often [...]
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