Organization & Management of Education

This is an account of how a principal combines the rational and emotional components of leadership to lead the transformation of a school. Most att...

How have the school effectiveness and school improvement movements arrived where they are today? Over the past three decades there has been a great...

Robert Starratt, a teacher of people in leadership positions, presents the foundations for the theory of leadership. Based on a framework divided i...

This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments to be crucial...

School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conserv...

This text addresses both the issues and practicalities of key skills in higher education. It discusses the issues relating to the introduction of k...

Dissecting in detail the arguments underlying the costs and economics of open and distance learning, this text should give the reader an insight an...

This volume presents an edited compilation of papers about the process of developing capable professionals and practitioners in every field in high...

The reorganisation of the education system within Britain has vastly increased the managerial responsibilities of those working in schools, althoug...

Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co-ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the se...

Management of premises can seem like the most complex and onerous of all tasks facing FE / HE college principals. In fact, the resposibility offers...

A practical handbook which senior staff in primary schools can use to support their activities in evidence-based management. There is increased emp...

A fresh look at school improvement from the perspective of professional development.There are many things that teachers can do to improve the condi...

At a time when traditional funding is diminishing and costs increasing, the need to look to new external sources of money is now central to surviva...

A practical handbook which senior staff in primary schools can use to support their activities in evidence-based management. There is increased emp...

School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conserv...

This is an account of how a principal combines the rational and emotional components of leadership to lead the transformation of a school. Most att...

Behaviour problems" in our schools occupy a considerable part of the education agenda and media attention. The major thrust of the literature has b...