A school bursar is the senior non-teaching officer responsible for finance, HR, estates, health and safety, ICT, change and administration in a UK school. The role reports to the headteacher in an independent school and to the trust board in an academy, and is defined by the seven national standards for school business professionals published by the Department for Education.
The site is organised the way a bursar's working file is organised. Each desk is a hub. Each spoke is a single answerable question with a cited source. The two calculators sit inside Salary and Workload rather than on the homepage, because this buyer prefers to read first and calculate second.
What a school bursar actually does, the seven national-standard SBM competencies, and the bursar versus SBM versus COO title disambiguation.
5 pages
Desk 02Per-school-type, per-region salary bands citing the ISBA salary survey, ONS ASHE and the ISC Annual Census. Includes the salary calculator.
14 pages + calculator
Desk 03CSBM, DSBM and the ISBA Diploma with current 2025/26 cohort fees, length, and a three-way comparison for the career-changer.
6 pages
Desk 04Permanent, outsourced, fractional, interim and virtual bursar models. Day-rate ranges and a post-VAT-on-fees impact note.
9 pages
Desk 05Weekly, monthly, termly and yearly task taxonomy, with an interactive day-rate calculator that yields a governor-quotable working paper.
3 pages + calculator
Desk 06Acronym glossary, the source-of-record ledger, what changed in 2025/26 (VAT, Academy Trust Handbook, KCSiE), and a long-form FAQ.
4 pages