School Governance: Common issues and how to deal with them is a clear and comprehensive guide to effective school governance.

Written by a well-known legal practitioner in the field of education law, School governance: common issues and how to deal with them brings you invaluable, practical advice on what to do about the common, and sometimes difficult, issues faced by anyone involved in school governance, whether at an urban or rural, primary or secondary school.

Members of school governing bodies, principals, deputies, teachers and parents will find the advice in this book and its scenario and solution format to be authoritative, realistic and accessible.

• Framework for governance
• Functioning of governing bodies
• Risk management and accountability
• The business of governing bodies
• Financial management
• Properties
• Hostels
• Educators
• School governing body staff
• Discipline
• Extra-curricular activities