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Joan Higgins says chairing a public sector board isn't always about ego or leading from the front.
Perez said that current public sector board members "have shown no leadership, haven't driven sponsorship dollars and brought us two horrible C.E.O.'s," referring to Lloyd Ward and Norm Blake.
Top officials often "retire" on to private sector Board of Directors or are granted lucrative positions inside organizations that they used to regulate, thereby forming a comfortable intermingling of the public and private sectors.
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Require 40% of all members of public company and public sector boards to be women.
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All interviewees work with Women on Boards, which is hosting an event on education sector boards in March.
Public sector boards can be looking for professional and technical skills, but many also want to understand what the consumer issues are at the school gate.
When I sat on the board of the Department of Trade and Industry, then then the Department for Trade, Business and Skills, I noticed something that had been missing from the private sector boards I had sat on previously.
The independent state school programme has also rested too heavily on the notion that freedom, entrepreneurial spirit, and untested gimmicky innovation – such as a half-baked "Eton of the state sector" boarding school – would somehow automatically deliver high standards and probity.
On public sector boards there are a range of talented people – for example, until recently at the Consumer Council for Water we had both the former chairman of First Great Western and a new mum on the board, and each had an important contribution to make.
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