CBI: businesses must give staff time to be academy governors

From FreshBusinessThinking.com: http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/news.php?NID=20891&Title=High+performance+education#.UqW0BWRg5e4

CBI report: http://www.cbi.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2013/11/give-employees-time-off-for-governor-duties-at-academies-and-free-schools/


Neil Carberry, CBI director for employment and skills policy, said: “Handing control over education to schools themselves is the right move. But it can only work if the quality of governing bodies is high and Ofsted holds them to account. We need strong leadership and even stronger governance.

“We must put the right foundations in place to make the most of greater freedom for schools, defaulting to the old ways of doing things is not the answer. And returning to Local Authority control would be a retrograde step.

“It’s such a fundamentally important issue that business is happy to extend the obligation for firms to release staff for governor duties to be widened to academies and free schools.

“We need greater partnership between the Government and businesses to deliver the right structures to lift performance across all our schools — and help every child fulfil their potential.”