1st Edition
Local Management of Schools Some Practical Issues
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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The provisions of the 1988 Education Reform Act have given many schools the turnover and responsibilities of a medium-sized business. The Act is certainly the most important educational legislation since 1944 and local management is the key issue, requiring schools to undertake specialist functions, such as budgetting and marketing, never tackled before at the institutional level. This book... Read more
Chapter 1 The changing managerial arena, Ernie Cave; Chapter 2 Resource management in schools, Michael Strain; Chapter 3 Local financial management, Denise McAlister, Michael Connolly; Chapter 4 Computers in school management, Reg North; Chapter 5 Marketing the school, Ernie Cave, Dave Demick; Chapter 6 The legal context, Gareth Parry; Chapter 7 Staff management and the school principal, Richard Mapstone; Chapter 8 The management of time, Cyril Wilkinson;
Biography
Ernie Cave is Director of the Education Management Unit, at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown
` It looks beyond LFM and is very much concerned with the managment of schools in their widest sense.' - Cambridge Journal of Education
