• To identify and consider the tensions inherent in the Principal's role as Chief Executive and Accounting Officer and as Governor
• To explore issues of accountability within the Governing Body and to external agencies
• To chart best practice in corporate governance in FE and to discuss the Principal's role in promoting this
• To review the LSC's approach to provider financial assurance review and to identify factors critical to successful self-assessment
• To develop sustainable governance best practice networks
  

10.00 Introduction and overview

10.15 Models of corporate governance - the role of the Chairman and the CEO:

• Private companies
• The public sector
• The "third sector"
• Further Education Corporations

11.15 Coffee

11.30 Workshop session: Provider financial assurance review

• Experience to date
• The self-assessment aide-memoire

12.30 Lunch

13.30 What constitutes best practice in College governance?

• The FEFC Inspection evidence
• Inspection under the Common Inspection Framework
• LSC and DfES perspectives

14.30 Tea

14.45 Workshop session: Building best practice networks

• Identifying the community to support best practice
• Agreeing a modus operandi

15.40 Review, summary and close

15.45 Depart