13 February 2014, The Tablet

Vital school roles

by Helen Pye

Tablet Education

 
Catholic schools, like other maintained schools in England, are experiencing a shortage of school governors. Helen Pye reports on initiatives to improve recruitment and training A charity recently announced that a shortage of 30,000 governors across England has left one in 10 maintained schools with governor vacancies. School Governors One Stop Shop found that that number rose to one in four schools in rural and deprived areas of England. Catholic schools are among those reporting a desperate lack of foundation governors to join their boards. In Catholic schools, foundation governors play a unique role as, in addition to regular governor duties, they are entrusted with sustaining and developing the distinctive Catholic nature of the school. Governors generally make up the accountable bod
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User Comments (1)

Comment by: Rosemary Hayes
Posted: 10/09/2020 17:51:09
Hello Ruth. You won't remember me but we corresponded decades ago about comparisons between modern disputes between the dean and chapter of Lincoln and those of the fifteenth century. My PhD was on Bishop William Alnwick (1436-40), hence my interest. You didn't say that the 1905 article was from the Victoria County History. Their ecclesiastical history volumes are still a useful starting point for histories of individual houses, although there has been a great deal of work in the past century,

The 1441 visitation is printed (with translation) in Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln 1436-1449, ed AH Thompson, vol I, Canterbury and York Society, vol XXIV (1919), pp 1-9. My favourite bit comes right at the beginning when the prioress says she wasn't prepared for the visitation because she couldn't understand the bishop's original mandate. If you'd like more, I could photocopy or scan the pages for you.