“Schools are facing significant budget cuts around Europe. In Scotland this has come at the same time as implementation of a new curriculum and as a result schools are seeing an increase in expectations while budgets fall. Head Teachers and their staff are constantly asked to do more with less and to take on new duties – more often than not their professionalism leads them to try to plug every funding gap with sweat from their own brow. This is not sustainable.
It is time for Headteachers to identify the things they can, or will, no longer do. This does not mean being resistant to change, it is about identifying the real priorities for your school and your pupils, communicating these to those around you and then only doing things which will contribute to the achievement of those priorities.”
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