by Peter Kent | Dec 11, 2023 | Presidents Corner
Welcome Mhlanga told us that ‘school leaders have to lead’. If we want the response to the world’s changing climate to have a high profile in our schools and associations, then the example has to come from the top. It is not an issue to delegate to others. We...
by Peter Kent | Dec 4, 2023 | Presidents Corner
When I told my family in Liverpool that I had been given the chance to attend the COP, they assumed that I was referring to the Kop at Anfield and that I had somehow managed to but tickets to watch my beloved football club. Sadly I haven’t got any football tickets,...
by Peter Kent | Sep 27, 2023 | General, Presidents Corner
I am writing this article a few days after the ending of our Council meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland. Given that our time together saw the release of the latest Principal Health Barometer survey from Finland, it might be expected that the meeting would have a rather...
by Peter Kent | Aug 31, 2023 | Presidents Corner
It was a great privilege to be invited to be the guest speaker at the African Confederation of Principals Conference in Eswatini. I had heard a great deal about ACP from my colleagues, particularly my predecessor as ICP President, Alta Van Heerden, who was a former...
by Peter Kent | Jul 18, 2023 | Presidents Corner
Many ICP colleagues have asked us to re-publish this wonderfully perceptive article by ICP’s former President, the late Alta Van Heerden The wellbeing of school principals has been the study of Prof. Phil Riley and others for a number of years. Statistics coming...
