Brenda Despontin, Nigel Richardson Heads

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Sixteen members of HMC and GSA schools and other organisations with experience of running academic departments in schools provide invaluable advice about leading by example; monitoring the effectiveness of the department's work; leading and managing your staff; leading from the middle; the limits of autonomy; curriculum and qualifications; the HoD's role in teacher recruitment and retention; induction and training issues for new teachers; heads of science; the learning styles phenomenon: reality or hoax? ICT across the curriculum; meetings; inspection issues in the age of ISI2 and 3; what bursars do; and how to keep your bursar happy.