Nicky Morgan speaks to NGA about school governance
Morgan announced plans to tackle underperformance, challenge mediocrity and have the highest expectations for every single child during the next five years. She also highlighted the important of school governance to ensure that schools remain financially healthy with robust management systems in place.
Morgan said: “a school-led system doesn’t mean schools as islands, making their own way. It means schools fully integrated with the local community, responsive to local parents and, crucially, connected with, learning from and supporting other schools.”
She added that: “I’ve been particularly grateful to the support of organisations like the CBI and especially its president, Mike Rake, for lending their support to the Academy Ambassadors programme - a programme which has helped introduce over 60 exceptional business leaders to the boards of multi-academy trusts over the last two years. Over the next five years we’ll go further down this path, because we passionately believe that the best run schools are those with the highly skilled governors who can both hold schools to account and direct their future path.”
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