BSA & AGBIS webinar – Foundations for boarding school Governors – roles, responsibilities and collective governance, 6.10.21

6 October @ 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Course Outline

This webinar, led by Richard Harman, Chief Executive, AGBIS, will review the roles and responsibilities of Governors of boarding schools and discuss how governors demonstrate collective governance. Best practice recommendations as to the development of the role of Governor, fulfilling responsibilities and ensuring successful governance will be discussed.

There will be opportunity for delegates to put any questions they may have about being a Governor of a boarding school, understanding the role and current issues to Richard, and to Robin Fletcher, Chief Executive, BSA Group.

Training topics will include:

• Roles and responsibilities of a boarding school Governor
• Collective governance
• Developing the role
• Understanding the boarding sector
• Demonstrating collective governance and working with SLT.

Learning outcomes:

• Increased confidence in understanding the remit of the role of Governor
• Increased confidence in asking questions of the wider board
• Best practice recommendations for ensuring collective governance.

Audience:

• All Governors, especially those with particular responsibility for Safeguarding and/or Boarding.

Cost:

• BSA Full / AGBIS Member – £50
• Additional BSA Full / AGBIS Member – £10
• BSA Affiliate Member £75 / Additional BSA Affiliate Member £15
• Non-member – £100

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Speakers:

Richard Harman, Chief Executive, AGBIS 

Richard Harman was educated at The King’s School, Worcester, following by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. Having spent two years working for an academic publisher, he decided his real vocation was in teaching. After five years at Marlborough College teaching English and Drama, during which time he also completed his PGCE at Exeter University, he spent 12 years at Eastbourne College. Progressing from Head of English to Housemaster of a Sixth Form girls’ house to member of the Senior Management Team, he then became Headmaster of Aldenham in September 2000 and thence to Uppingham in 2006. After a decade leading Uppingham and 32 years overall in teaching, he embarked on a third career as Chief Executive of AGBIS. Richard is much enjoying the challenges at AGBIS, having been Chairman of the BSA for 2011-12 and Chairman of HMC for 2014-15.

Robin Fletcher, Chief Executive, BSA and BSA Group

Robin Fletcher, MBA, MPhil, is CEO of BSA Group, comprising the BSA (Boarding Schools’ Association), Sacpa (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association) and BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students). Robin was a journalist, editor and communications director before joining BSA in 2014.

As BSA CEO, Robin is a member of the Department for Education’s Systems Partnership Oversight Board. Outside BSA, he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Governor of Rugby School, President of the Rugbeian Society and a non-executive director of the national trade body Make UK. He lives in Bath in south west England and has two daughters, two stepdaughters, and two stepsons.