A working group, chaired by schools minister Jim Knight, has been formed to develop plans to give every school a highly skilled, smaller and better trained governing body. Currently bodies have between nine and 20 members. But Judith Bennett, chair of the association and a member of the working group, said: "I wonder if this is related to a perceived inability to get governors as 11 per cent of posts in England are vacant. There's also a view that smaller equals better -...


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