Guest Speaker 3- Steve Gullick

Today we had our final seminar with Steve Gullick, who is the director of the all wales center fir Governor training and research. Again, we taught us more about governors, however unlike the previous session we learnt more knowledge about the work of governors. Steve gave us a small introduction to which countries and the percentages of how there is lack of governors in these areas. e.g- deprived areas-these suffer the most.
He then introduced us to a man called Professor Stuart Ranson and explained his thoughts and opinions about governors. Ranson came to the conclusion that governors are often white, middle aged and middle class. Based on this, Steve then went on to explain why this is? I learnt that this is because black ethnic minorities may not get a job as a governor due to a language barrier. In order to become a governor it is vital to have the English language.
Following on from this we had a handout by Peter Early on his 4 main types of governing bodies. We discussed this handout as a whole to come to some answers we all agreed on.
To end this session, we were given a question. Should training be compulsory? Answers to this was the Welsh Government is bringing out a law that to become a Governor you must have basic training and the same to became a chair.