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NCSL's online seminars offer you a continuing professional development opportunity, completely free of charge, simply by replaying any of the seminars below.

If you have any access problems, call the NCSL helpdesk on 0845 609 0009 or email enquiries@ncsl.org.uk.


Mick Waters

Register for Primary curriculum review: implications for leadership
4.30pm, Thursday 20 November 2008
This online seminar is part of NCSL's Leading Practice events and is a chance to hear current progress on the primary curriculum review being conducted by Sir Jim Rose. Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), will consider the implications of the findings for school leaders and leadership, share and discuss interesting and innovative practice relating to curriculum design and learning experiences, and inform the next stage of the review and the final recommendations.


Estelle Morris
Register for Estelle Morris in conversation
4.30pm, Tuesday 25 November 2008
Estelle Morris was appointed to the post of secretary of state for the newly created Department for Education and Skills in 2001. Estelle resigned from this post in 2002 but returned to the front bench eight months later as minister in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. She was appointed to the House of Lords after the May 2005 election. This online seminar will follow Estelle's appearance at NCSL's New Heads Conference 2008 and will include an opportunity for colleagues to ask questions.

Sir Keith Ajegbo

Register for Community cohesion
4.30pm, Wednesday 26 November 2008
As school leaders, we are working towards a society where the diversity of people’s backgrounds is appreciated and valued through teaching, learning and the curriculum, equality and excellence, engagement and extended services. Schools can play an important role in achieving these goals, but they can’t do it on their own. They need to work with their local communities. In this online seminar, Sir Keith Ajegbo will explore the implications of this work for school leaders and offer practical examples of what school leaders are doing to promote community cohesion.


NCSL Director Strategic Initiatives Primary Paul Bennett
Register for Working better together: leading small primary schools
4.30pm, Wednesday 3 December 2008
This Leading Practice online seminar looks at the national context and challenges facing small schools that are working collaboratively to address economic viability, succession planning and leadership capacity in order to sustain their provision. The event will explore how the issues are being addressed in different parts of the country. With Tony Danker (McKinseys) and NCSL Director Strategic Initiatives Primary Paul Bennett.

Previous seminars


Nicola Allan, Co-headteacher at Colleton Primary School, Berkshire

Replay Co-headship as part of succession planning
October 2008
Co-headteacher at Colleton Primary School, Berkshire and NCSL Research Associate Nicola Allan explores the possibility that co-headship could be part of the solution to the recruitment challenge in school leadership. This seminar is useful for those considering co-headship and those considering appointing co-headteachers.


Mark Aldridge

Replay School business managers: their role in distributed leadership
September 2008
A chance to hear about Financial Controller of Hockerill Anglo-European College and Research Associate Mark Aldridge's research, which reviewed the impact of the key drivers on school leadership, evaluated distributed leadership research from a school business manager perspective, and surveyed what is happening across UK state schools.


Gilly Harwood-Smith

Replay Exploring the strategic role that headteachers and governors carry out in partnership
August 2008
School Improvement Partner and Research Associate Gilly Harwood-Smith's research explores the strategic role that headteachers and governors carry out in partnership, in three case study schools. Within these three contrasting primary schools are school governors who have assumed this strategic responsibility. Alongside them are school leaders, both voluntary in their governor role and professional in their headteacher role, who are working together in equal partnership.


Richard Jones
Replay leading sustainable schools
Seizing Success 2008: Annual Leadership Conference seminar
July 2008
How can leaders ensure that they are addressing the challenge of sustainability in their schools? Richard Jones, Headteacher of Hagbourne Primary, shared his school's learning and progress to date.

Replay Growing leadership from within
Seizing Success 2008: Annual Leadership Conference seminar
June 2008
Staff and students at Beauchamp College in Leicester describe the impact of student leadership in this extended school.


Replay Making good progress
Seizing Success 2008: Annual Leadership Conference seminar
June 2008
Val McGregor and David Linsell discuss the pilot of Making good progress, a key initiative of the DCSF's personalised learning agenda.


Replay Developing local solutions for succession planning
June 2008
We join the recording as Chris Kirk, NCSL Director of Succession Planning, talks about the impact of local solution activity.


Jane Doughty

Replay National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) redesign
March 2008
NCSL Operational Director Jane Doughty talks about the redesign of NPQH.


Peter Addison-Child

Replay Applying for headship
March 2008
Recruitment Specialist Peter Addison-Child reviews the themes in the Applying for headship online discussion and answers your questions.


Mike Chislett

Replay Mitigating Mobility: leading a school with high service mobility
March 2008
Joy McCormick and Mike Chislett from Service Children Education discuss Mitigating Mobility, an online community research project focused on improving the experience of school transfer for service students and families.

Earlier seminars

You can view older seminars on the Online seminars archive page.