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In the world of school finance, the use of some words can develop and evolve over time as their meaning changes. Hilary Goldsmith creates the definitive guide to budgeting terms

It’s the not the fainthearted, glory-hunters or emotionally fragile, but the resilient who cut it as a school business leader, writes Hilary Goldsmith

The necessity of making difficult decisions, such as over exclusions or redundancies, weighs heavily on senior school staff, writes one school leader. And yet somehow we just get on with it...

When you have to take away after-school clubs, trip subsidies, hardship funds and the focused support, that’s when being a school business leader really sucks, writes Hilary Goldsmith

CPD for support staff needs to be targeted and it must have practical applications, Hilary Goldsmith explains

To make schools ready to educate future generations of students, schools need to be given time to work on strategy, Hilary Goldsmith argues.