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National Governors’ Association

The National Governors’ Council and the National Association of School Governors merged on 15 February 2006 to form the National Governors’ Association. 

The National Governors’ Association (NGA) is the representative body for school governors in England.

The NGA works for governors by:

Governors can join the NGA as individuals, as members of a governing body, or through their local governors’ association.

For more about the NGA visit their website at www.nga.org.uk.

NGA Awards to Governing Bodies

For the first time in 2009 NGA will also be presenting awards to governing bodies.  There will be three awards for governing bodies who have excelled in dealing with issues in the following categories:  challenging circumstances,  support for governance and exceptional projects.  The closing date for nomination for the governing body awards in 12 December 2008.

The NGA Awards recognise the huge commitment made to schools by governors and governing bodies. The NGA is pleased that the Department for Children, Schools and Families has also recognised that commitment with financial support for the 2009 Awards.

The nomination forms can be downloaded from the NGA Events web page. 

Alternatively you can contact the NGA Office by email at  or by telephone on 0121 643 5787.   Paper copies of both nomination forms can be obtained from NGA HQ.

The NGA look forward to receiving your nomination forms.

NGA South West Region

New Regional Director

At the Regional NGA Meeting at Taunton on 4th October John Pay was elected Regional Director for an initial year, supported by (the new post of) Assistant Regional Director, Christopher Pearce.

John Pay is from Poole and Christopher Pearce from Gloucestershire.

NGA 2008 Summer Conference

Whose Curriculum is it anyway?

Saturday 21 June 2008

A Short Report on the conference from Judith Bennett, Chair of the National Governors’ Association.

NGA Newsletter and Reports

Book Reviewers

National Governors’ Association – Book Reviewers Request/Opportunity

DAG has been approached to pass the following message to Devon Governors.

“We are looking for book reviewers for the NGA magazine.  We regularly receive books on education and governance issues.  We try to review a couple of books per issue and the work is currently falling on the same people.  To write a review you need to be prepared to:  Read the book; Write a short (400 word max) review to the deadline set.  Which may mean reading and reviewing within a two week timescale.  We have a professional editor who will beat your copy into shape - and edit it exactly for word length, so non-writers should not feel discouraged from volunteering.”  

If you are interested please contact Phil Revell at .

It would also be helpful if you would copy David Tall at  in any communication.