Annual Governance Conference 2012
Accountability to your community - meeting their needs - Thursday 22 March
The Learning and Skills Improvment Service hosted the Annual Governance Conference at the Midland Hotel, Manchester on Thursday 22 March and Friday 23 March.
The two days provided an opportunity to:
- Set out the current policy and landscape.
- Give practical examples of how providers are responding.
- adopting new structures, new partnerships and new business models.
- Explore what this means to governance in the FE sector.
- Facilitate an opportunity for participants to discuss the key questions they should be asking back in their institutions.
Video footage and presentations from Thursday can be found below.
Keynotes
Opening address | Dame Ruth Silver DBE, Chair, LSIS and Bill Lucas, Conference Chair
The future we're in. Welcome and introduction to the conference - Dame Ruth Silver DBE, Chair, LSIS
Keynote | Colleges in their communities - David Hughes, Chief Executive, NIACE
Keynote | Welcome from Rob Wye, Chief Executive, LSIS and Launch of the Student Governor Toolkit, Roshni Joshni, NUS
Launch of the student Governor toolkit - video
Strand sessions
Challenges and opportunities for clerks:
FE governance: options for change - opportunities for colleges - powerpoint slides (.pdf 215 KB), Ben Wood and Nick Saunders, Eversheds
Challenges and opportunities for governors:
Strategic governance for a dynamic FE sector - powerpoint slides (.pdf 911KB), Bobbie McClelland, BIS
Governance feedback and evaluation:
Powerpoint slides (.pdf 746 KB), Louise Redmond, Law Debenture
powerpoint slides (.pdf 215 KB), Ben Wood and Nick Saunders, Eversheds powerpoint slides (.pdf 911KB), Bobbie McClelland, BIS Louise Redmond, Law Debenture
Workshops
Set one
1. Learner satisfaction survey, Dan Baxter, NUS (.pdf 138 KB)
3. The self evaluating board, Tina Fahm, Partner Fahm & Co (.pdf 356 KB)
4. Improving the contribution of senior staff to governance, Ron Hill and Ina James, LSIS (.pdf 733 KB)
5. E-governance - paperless board meetings, Sheila Selwood, West Herts College and Graham Briscoe, Coleg Gwent (.pdf 468 KB)
- Workshop video
6. Professional dialogue - asking powerful questions, Susie Knight, LSIS (.pdf 207B)
- Workshop video
7. Finance and funding in challenging times, Brian Godbold, LSIS (.pdf 1.06MB)
8. Succeeding and surviving with less - is merger the only option? Vici Cadwallader-Webb and Scott Winter, Tenon Education, Training and Skills (.pdf 597 KB)
9. How effective is your performance management of the CEO, Denise Whitworth, LSIS (.pdf 1.08MB)
Set two
10. Governance an its relationship with teaching and learning, Susie Knight, LSIS (.pdf 95.8 KB)
- Workshop video
11. Accountability to communities: Students as people, students as leaders, Gareth Lindop, NUS (.pdf 168 KB)
13. New models of collaboration, delivery and shared services, Emanuel Gatt, Shared Services Architects and Christine Doubleday, 157 Group
- Workshop video
14. Partnership working to meet community needs, Heather Pike and Tim Lincoln, Abingdon and Witney College and Natalie McPherson, Macintyre (.pdf 545 KB)
16. Safeguarding - the next phase, Debbie Betteridge, LSIS (.pdf 489 KB)
17. Responsible, sustainable, accountable leadership, Conrad Benefield, LSIS and Ian Munroe, AoC SW (.pdf 808 KB)
- Workshop video
The LSIS Self-evaluation board documents can be found below:
Behaviour scorecard (.pdf 53.4KB)
Chair's performance review (.pdf 116 KB)
Evaluation of meetings (.pdf 27.4KB)
Evaluation of papers (.pdf 26.1KB)
Governance induction evaluation form (.pdf 44.3KB)
Members review and development form (.pdf 79.3KB)
Search and succession commitee self assessment (.pdf 84.5KB)