This module provides a very brief overview and should not be seen as comprehensive. Boards should ensure they have both governance and operational policies relating to child protection as required in their particular state/territory.
This course will help boards in this important task.
This is part 2 of Risk Management and the Risk Management Module should be completed prior to this one. This module explores how board can integrate risk management into their governance tasks and decision-making. It also looks at the identification and management of emerging risks.
This course will help boards in the important task of managing risk.
As Christian leaders, we are asked to be wise stewards of all that belongs to the school. Christian boards should not be afraid of risk. Risk is part of everyday life and an essential part of the mission of a school. We encounter risk whenever we step out of our comfort zones to ensure the long-term viability of a vision for Christian education that we hold dear. What a privilege!
In conjunction with management, the board instils a strong risk culture so that everyone works together to appropriately manage and harness risk.
Compliance… that ever-increasing demand on boards and schools to ensure they meet standards expected by regulators. It can feel like a burden that is too big for ordinary board members. Yet, if viewed differently, compliance systems can be a wonderful source of comfort for the board to know there is clarity about what they have to attend to. Understanding the compliance role of the board can certainly help board members sleep better at night!
This course will help boards in this important task.
Christian Education National (CEN) schools are born out of a gathering of people of faith. For our schools to thrive, we need Associations of people committed to Christian education and who seek to ensure schools stay true to their vision, mission and values. Our Associations must be strong and vibrant so our school can be too.
Boards play an essential role in building, maintaining and engaging their Associations, and to being accountable to those Associations.
This course will help boards in those important tasks.
This module is for NSW Boards to help them navigate the not-for-profit requirements of the Education Act 1990. These requirements are additional to the ACNC requirements and are easy to breach. The consequences can be very serious, including loss of all government funding. Similar provisions apply in Victoria and this content will be useful to Victorian Boards.
This module helps boards (and other responsible persons) to ensure compliance in this tricky area.
This course will help boards in the important task of financial governance.
Not all Board members have passion and talent in the area of finance, but all have responsibility for it. This course gives board members who are less financially experienced a basic overview of how to fulfil their due diligence in oversight of school finances.
This course will help boards in the important task of financial governance.
Not all Board members have passion and talent in the area of finance, but all have responsibility for it. This course gives board members who are less financially experienced a basic overview of how to fulfil their due diligence in oversight of school finances.
This course will help boards in the important task of financial governance.
Not all Board members have passion and talent in the area of finance, but all have responsibility for it. This course gives board members who are less financially experienced a basic overview of how to fulfil their due diligence in oversight of school finances.
This course will help boards in the important task of financial governance.
One of the first priorities for a board member is to understand the vision, mission and values of your school. It is your duty to uphold this, as it is set out in your Constitution, and to ensure the school’s vision is lived out in your community. This course will help boards in this important task.
One of the most important relationships for your board is the relationship between the board and the principal/executive principal. This cannot be emphasised enough. Together, you provide direction, leadership, and vision for the school community; your roles are different, but a school will thrive when the principal and board are working well together. This course will help boards in this important relationship.
A board’s meeting time is essential to good governance – not only in terms of the decisions made, but also related to the interactions with management, the opportunity to listen to each other, to set the tone and to forge a strong team. This course will help boards to have effective, efficient and uplifting board meetings.