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Welcome to GEL

GEL provides essential training to governors enabling them to become more effective and demonstrate this with evidence to Ofsted. It equips your governing body with the knowledge and confidence to drive school improvement. You can trust the accuracy and content of the materials and it allows governors to be flexible in their learning in a time and place to suit them.

The Eastern Leadership Centre

ELC is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2003 aimed at improving the lives of children and young people. We do this by supporting all aspects of educational leadership for professionals and volunteers like you: commited, caring adults who benefit from our range of leadership training services, event hosting and conferencing facilities.

The National Governors’ Association

To ensure our services are relevant, high-quality and accurate, GEL is working in partnership with The National Governors’ Association - representative body for over 300,000 state-funded school governors in England; supporting and promoting governing excellence through lobbying, national conferences and regional events.

GEL Partners

Key to our success is the strong partnerships we have with Headteachers, staff, governors, children's centres, local authorities and businesses. Relationships with like-minded organisations is crucial to achieving the objective of improving the lives of children and young people. Our third sector partners are; NGA, Academies Alliance, Clerkwise, CfBT.

Learning Modules

Hot Topics

National Leaders of Governance (January 2012)
Ofsted to introduce no-notice inspections (January 2012)
Ofsted to scrap 'satisfactory' judgement (January 2012)
Statutory Policies for Schools (January 2012)
Consultation on the future of ICT (January 2012)
The Education Act 2011 (November 2011)
OfSTED Parent View Web Site (November 2011)
Consultation on the Review of PSHE (October 2011)
Teachers’ Standards in England from September 2012 (October 2011)
New Ofsted Inspection Framework for Schools (October 2011)
» See all Hot Topics

Free 30 day trial

Being an effective governing body relies on fit for purpose training and support. Ofsted will expect schools to demonstrate that their governing body is effective with evidence. GEL can provide essential
e-learning that fulfills these needs.

Sign up now for a 30 day free trial and see how GEL can help you.

Help with registering

If your Local Authority or individual school is on our list of subscribers you can sign up for a GEL account here.

Go to the 'Membership Tab' at the top of the GEL homepage to check - then proceed to the next steps.

Step 1 Click on the Register button below and complete the registration process by adding in your details.

Step 2 An automatic e-mail will be sent to your Local Authority or School who will approve your registration.

Step 3 Once approved you will then receive e-mail confirmation and can access GEL via the 'My Page' tab at the top of the GEL homepage.

Governor Training Opportunity

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP MOVE YOUR SCHOOL TOWARDS OUTSTANDING ?

ELC are running a series of 4 Tuesday Twilight Light Bite Sessions at the Eastern Leadership Centre in Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 February - The implications of the new Ofsted criteria
for school teams
Tuesday 6 March - Raising standards through monitoring and evaluation
Tuesday 28 February - Raising standards through effective data analysis
Tuesday 12 March - Supporting your team through change

INTERESTED ? click here

GEL & Academies Alliance Partnership

We are delighted to have formed a partnership with the Academy Alliance, who run the primary and secondary academy information networks.

This collaboration will give GEL members free instant access to the network's wealth of guidance and information, that helps school governors gain a school-contextualised and balanced view of the potential advantages and disadvantages of academy conversion.

To access these resources click on the following links and follow the instructions:

www.primaryacademy.net
for Primary Schools