ASCL Hotline: Support when you need it most

It is a real privilege to be writing my first article for Leader magazine. As a former ASCL member myself, I always found each edition packed with timely insight, reassurance and practical advice. In my new role, I hope to add to these pages by sharing insight from the work ...

/Leader/Issues/2026-Spring-term/ASCL-Hotline-Support-when-you-need-it-most 02/03/2026 14:47:55

ASCL comment on NFER report on pay gap between FE and secondary school teachers

Claire Green, Post-16 and Skills Specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, comments on a report from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), which state that FE teachers earn an average of 20 per cent less than their secondary school peers...

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/ASCL-comment-on-NFER-report-on-pay-gap-between-FE 12/03/2026 00:00:00

ASCL Educational Development Trust

ASCL Education Development Trust The trust supports and promotes research into aspects of education and supports projects relating to education in any part of the world as the trustees deem appropriate. The trustees are ex officio: Presidential Trio , Hon. Treasurer, Hon S...

/About-us/Who-we-are/Social-responsibility-and-projects/ASCL-Educational-Development-Trust 04/07/2019 13:41:03

Leading Effective Disadvantaged Provision for Secondary

Places are limited to a maximum of 24 participants and booking is offered on a first come first served basis. The programme will support effective planning for disadvantaged pupils in secondary schools, showing how to measure the impact of strategies but also in knowing w...

/professional-development/Programmes/Leading-Effective-Disadvantaged-Provision-for-(1) 30/09/2024 14:43:27

ASCL comment on funding for SEND places in mainstream schools

Julia Harnden, Deputy Director of Policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, comments following the announcement of funding for more specialist places for children with SEND in mainstream schools. 

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/ASCL-comment-on-funding-for-SEND-places-in-mainstr 25/03/2026 00:00:00

Leading Effective Disadvantaged Provision for Secondary

/professional-development/Events/Leading-Effective-Disadvantaged-Provision-for-Seco 16/09/2026 16:00:00

Interconnected leadership

I began my teaching career in 1991 in Rotherhithe, South East London in a school that was led by a superb headteacher, Norna Moses. It was the conversations I had with Norna that gave me the confidence to seize opportunities as they arose and take on responsibility beyond the ...

/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/Interconnected-Leadership 09/11/2023 09:58:16

Recruit and retain

School business and support staff For school business and support staff, just as for teaching staff, recruitment is getting harder. There are ever-expanding expectations on our core purpose and accountability, a reducing talent pool to recruit from and lack of funding and a...

/Leader/Issues/2023-Autumn-term/Recruit-and-retain 09/11/2023 17:43:11

Guidance

150 years of school attendance Following the Education Act (1870), the Elementary Education Act 1876 (Sandon's Act) (1876) compelled parents, for the first time, to send their children to school from the ages of five to ten. As time has passed and the school leaving age has...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Spring-term/150-years-of-school-attendance 26/02/2024 14:39:04

ASCL UK

Leading together The return of Stormont has, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, brought with it a degree of stability and a platform for education to move forward in Northern Ireland. The pay deal and workload agreement unlocked the stalemate of industrial action, which in tu...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Autumn-term/ASCL-UK-Autumn-2024 08/10/2024 16:30:39