New Schools PODCAST #1

Mark Hutchinson talks to Garry Paget, long-standing CFO of the St Philip's Christian College group of schools (in the Hunter region) about topics important to those planning new schools, such as:

• How Garry began in the administration of Christian schools, and grew a system which has proven capable of managing a complex, expanding system of schools.
• The role of the CFO, and their relationship to a visionary CEO, in growing Christian schools
• The use of metrics to enable the growth of good schools
• The organizational underpinning and resources are needed to start a new school 
• The financial and administrative advantages of networked schools.

St Philip's now embraces six separately registered schools all owned by a common Foundation, built from a mixture of new school plants and school acquisitions.  Several new campuses are on the drawing board.  The school has demonstrated not just remarkable durability but the continuing ability to generate innovative programs, including the remarkable DALE campuses, and the St Philip's Teaching School.

​The entire Podcast can be found here.