Developing The Role of School Business Managers(SBMs)
SBMs ensure that schools are more financially and administratively efficient, whilst managing crucial relationships with external stakeholders such as business and higher education – harnessing wider resources and inputs to improve the learning experience of pupils. Research tells us that they have the potential to save up to a third of an individual headteachers’ time, allowing heads to focus on the ‘core’ work of the school i.e. ensuring effective teaching and raising standards.
Since 2002 the college has developed two training routes for SBMs: the Certificate of School Business Management (CSBM) and Diploma for School Business Management (DSBM). Over 5,000 school business managers, or bursars, have completed NCSL's national bursar training programmes. Almost 1,900 participants enrolled in the programmes in 2006–07. The success of these mean that most secondary schools now have access to high quality business management. The challenge is how to secure this in more schools, particularly primary schools. The college is running demonstration projects to investigate and evaluate how a single School Business Director (individuals with high level business and finance expertise) can provide support to a group of small primary schools.
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