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Govern your School - Offers information and guidance, news, resources and contacts. Includes examples of best practice, publications, statistics and glossary.
Governornet - Official UK Government site offering up-to-date information on all aspects of school governance. Includes publications, discussion board, guides and briefings. Also features online consultation questionnaires.
ISCG - Information for School and College Governors - Provides practical advice and independent up-to-date information. Includes soundings panel, newsletters, publications, training and seminars, advice and consultancy.
National Governors' Council - Aims to scrutinise Government education proposals and to voice the views of members to Government, Local Government and other bodies. Includes profile, conferences, consultations and members' area.
The Parent Governor Representative Network - Aims to provide communication channels for Parent Governor Representatives. Includes news and events, FAQ, e-mail list, newsletter and forum.
School Governors' One-Stop Shop - Aims to recruit people with transferable skills from the world of work to fill vacancies on governing bodies. Includes profile, case studies, and information for LEAs, schools, individuals and employers.
National Association of Governors and Managers - Membership organisation for school governors. Includes organisation profile, membership information, news, planning, consultation, resources, and list of publications and order form.
Times Educational Supplement: Governors - Governors' section of the TES. Includes Governors Information Network, subscription offer, forum, questions and answers, and information about the BTEC Advanced Certificate in School Governance.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool: Governor Support and Training - Information of interest to governors of Roman Catholic schools, provided by Liverpool Archdiocesan School Commission for its own school governors. Includes news and downloadable booklets.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche School Governors When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) School Governors If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) School Governors "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) School Governors LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings School Governors The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) School Governors blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) School Governors If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson School Governors At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 School Governors They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther School Governors You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken School Governors Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem School Governors "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings School Governors Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett School Governors To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure School Governors "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( School Governors Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun School Governors "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) School Governors "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) School Governors "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness School Governors LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt School Governors A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein School Governors
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