Eve Hedley has twenty-two years teaching experience in the MFL classroom across all key stages and is passionate about languages, raising achievement and improving the quality of Teaching and Learning in our schools. Eve is a former Deputy Headteacher and was in charge of Quality of Education and Teaching and Learning. Throughout her career, Eve has been involved in some highly challenging, but ultimately very successful school to school support programmes which have given her a unique skill set and an insight into what is needed to affect change and transform struggling schools and departments. Eve is a skilled coach, mentor, AST and SLE and also runs a successful consultancy business offering training and support to schools and other organisations.
Here Eve talks us through changes to the new GCSE MFL qualification:
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- Education
Back in November 2021, we were pleased to sponsor the Convenziz online event, ‘The Road Ahead: Defining Growth Across the Education System’. The webinar brought together a number of key voices from the sector, offering guidance for the challenges that school and academy leaders might face when approaching growth in the 2021/2022 academic year.
Jeff Marshall is the managing director of J&G Marshall Limited and a longstanding educational advisor. His keynote speech asked the question, ‘What’s next for schools?’ as we approach 2022 - a year when all schools are expected to be part of a MAT.
He offered his view of the current landscape, sharing his opinion based on years of experience on the options that school leaders have if they’re looking to grow. Read on to see what three takeaways we can take from his talk:
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- Education
We spoke with Carol Massay, Head of Access Construction and winner of the ‘Construction businesswoman of the year’ at the Great British Business Woman Awards, to discuss her journey in the industry and her thoughts on women, diversity and new entrants coming into construction.
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- Construction
Market-leading P2P solution to roll out to 40 new hotels in the group
Bespoke Hotels, the UK's largest independent hotel group, has chosen sector technology experts Access Hospitality to supply “Access Procure Wizard” to manage its procurement, following a competitive tender process. The Purchase to Pay (P2P) solution will be implemented across a parcel of 40 hotels recently added to the Bespoke Hotel managed portfolio.
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- Hospitality
For those taking their first steps into remote working, here’s some useful guidance to get you started. We’ll look at the pre-requisites to get you going, why communication channels are so important, what to do and what to avoid. Read on to find out more, plus extra hints and tips.
Coronavirus has got every business urgently assessing what it could do to help employees work from home if needed. In fact, even before the current crisis, many companies were realising that homeworking can be just as effective as office-based working for both the business and their employees. And HR leaders can do plenty to help facilitate a smooth transition now as well as providing support for home workers in the longer term.
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- Human Resources
The UK’s foremost providers of online training, compliance and risk management solutions for law firms, Socrates and Riliance, are joining forces – having both been acquired by The Access Group.
Here’s our round-up of the big economic and business news from the past week. The rising cost of living has seen consumer spending fall at its fastest rate for four years. Visa’s consumer spending index reported that spending fell by 0.3% in the last quarter.
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- Finance
Do you know how well your business is progressing as we hit the middle of 2017? If the answer is no, you’re not alone - it’s all too easy to get wrapped up in the day-to-day running of a company and lose sight of your goals. But, you shouldn’t wait until the end of the year to assess your situation.
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- Finance
