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Welcome to the Employee Governors Network – EGN for short.

Being a governor of a school or college is demanding.  It takes time to understand the issues before you and you want to make an effective contribution.  By definition, employee governors are busy people – which adds to the pressure on time to stay on top of things as a governor.

 

That’s where the EGN comes in.  The website has been developed through dialogue with companies who have large numbers of employee governors. 

 

What you will find in the EGN website is:

  • the opportunity to communicate with all other employee governors in your company or organisation – to exchange good ideas, to find out how they tackle issues in their schools or colleges or simply to discuss ideas
  • opportunities to take part in surveys by the Governor organisations and the relevant Government Department
  • ‘Quick guides’ to key developments in policy, curriculum and qualifications, research
  • Access to FEdS papers past and present
  • Links to the main websites for governors’ organisations – each of which has helped develop the EGN as a new and separate initiative for the UK

Please note: the EGN Forum is for governors to share their own ideas. These ideas are not endorsed by EGN and are to be used at governors' own discretion.

Why be a governor?  If you're thinking of becoming a governor and want to find out more about what it involves and how employee governors can really add value, please click here

NEWS: Ofsted pubslished their new report 'School governance: learning from the best' on 18th May 2011.  Click here to go to the new report.

FEdS' aim is to promote well-informed debate that will help to improve the provision of education and skills in the UK.

It provides a neutral space where senior, experienced people from business, education and government can think creatively and work collaboratively.

FEdS runs programmes based on its aims - and one such programme is the EGN.

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  • Wolf Report

    The WolF Report - Review of Vocational Education - was published on Friday 4 March and immediately welcomed by Michale Gove as a 'brilliant and ground-breaking' report. It makes 27 recommendations for reform of vocational education so that the life chances of young people are transformed. The Report estimates that around 350000 young people are on vocational courses that lead nowhere and that this sad truth results from 'perverse incentives' that militate against putting young people's interests first. The recommendations could have profound impacts for schools and colleges in seking to have even more profound ones for young people. You can read a summary in the FEdS briefing on the EGN website. The key questions for governors will be how to respond to the recommendations accepted and acted on by the Secretary of State.

  • Education Bill

    The Education Bill was introduced to Parliament on 26 January, and was given its second reading on 8 February. It will implement most of the proposals set out in November’s Education White Paper - a curriculum bill is expected to follow later in the year. A special EGN ‘hot topics’ paper highlights the provisions of most interest to governors. They apply mainly to England, although some also apply in Wales.
    The Bill will now go to ‘committee stage’, where it will be closely scrutinised and amended, and evidence from experts will be considered. It will then return to the House of Commons for further discussion (‘report stage’) and third reading, from where it will go on to the House of Lords. Only after a similar process there can it receive Royal Assent.

    What are you hoping this Bill will deliver?

  • National Curriculum Review

    By the end of this year, we will have the first recommendations from the review of the National Curriculum for 5-16 year-olds in England, launched by Education Secretary Michael Gove at the end of January.
    Of course, it was only comparatively recently that Sir Jim Rose published the results of his review of the primary curriculum, which was due to be introduced in schools from September 2011. However, the new government did not approve of his theme-based approach, and it was shelved.
    This will be the first such review to be undertaken by the Department for Education rather than an arms-length quango.
    What would you like to see in the new national curriculum for 5 -16 year-olds?

  • What are your next steps as a board?

    How is your school responding to the cuts in public spending? What are the key issues you face?

  • FEdS Newsletter

    The latest edition of the FEdS newsletter is published today. As usual it brings FEdS and EGN member up to date about all that is happening in the interlinked worlds of business and education. In this month's copy this covers everything from skills and the employment situation to primary testing and student fees. If you would like to know more about FEdS contact Croal Rayfield at FEdS on 02083151260 or coral.rayfield@feds.co.uk