This booklet is based on a research project focused on how schools can build on good short-term school development planning and address the issues of both sustainability and of longer-term capability and capacity building. The study looked in depth at highly successful strategically-focused primary, secondary and special schools to find the critical factors involved in strategic approaches. The project was seeking insights into how schools translate their core purpose and futures perspective into action by deploying a strategic approach. It also examined how schools build strategic processes that enable staff to engage in futures and strategic discussions to build capability to move ahead from the short-term target-setting culture to enable longer-term development to take place.The booklet is available at: http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/randd-success-sustainability.pdf
Special website pages have been developed to improve the safety of Britain’s motorcyclists. The ‘Handle It or Lose It’ site also allows bikers to report problems they experience on the road and to plan their routes. Information provided by the riders will be passed to local authorities.The pages have been created by the Highways Agency and will allow riders to see where, and learn why, most motorbike accidents happen. The site features an electronic reporting facility where bikers themselves can highlight where they have come off their bikes. The new features have been launched as part of a nationwide effort to cut the number of motorcyclists who are killed or seriously injured in accidents.
Primary schools in rural areas of Scotland are expanding their traditional roles to meet the wider needs of their local communities, according to research published today by Children in Scotland, the national agency for voluntary, statutory and professional organisations and individuals working with children and families.A new report, “A sense of time, a sense of place: meeting the needs of the whole child in small communities”, is part of the organization’s “Growing Up in Rural Scotland”. It says many schools have become a focal for the delivery of a range of services in their communities.
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