School Leadership, Management & Administration

Written by recognised experts in the field, Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants, provides evidence-informed, up-to-date guidance on how to rethink the role and contribution of TAs, and add real value to what can be achieved in classrooms. With practical tools, strategies and ‘real world’ ca..

Originally published in 1969. This is the first volume in a trilogy detailing a study based on the results of over twenty years’ experience among teachers and pupils and examines in detail the differences between the two types of school. This volume focuses on the teachers and on the pupil-teacher r..

Originally published in 1971. This second volume in the three-part set examines specific aspects of social relationships within the school and demonstrates that co-educational and single-sex schools are fundamentally different communities...

Originally published in 1974. This final volume in the trilogy is concerned primarily with comparing the academic progress made by pupils of near-equal ability in the two types of school...

For aspiring principals in school finance courses, this book explains and demonstrates the relationship between money and student achievement...

Originally published in 1992. The emphasis of this book is on the role of governors rather than their powers. It considers the tasks of management which must be carried out in schools and discusses the parts which governors can play in these management activities...

Originally published in 1984. The papers in this collection have been specially commissioned or collected together to examine leadership with special reference to one or more aspects, sectors, roles or interests within the educational system of England and Wales...

Reform strategies across European nation states are radical and localised but it is important to recognise diversity and patterns within networks of ideas and policy actors. This book addresses this complex and dynamic situation by focusing on New Public Management as a major shaper and influencer o..

Originally published in 1991. This book examines the early experiences of the first grant-maintained Schools and considers the challenges facing the self-managing school in the 1990s. A section of specially commissioned case studies written by headteachers offers accounts of how each school has cope..

Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities...

A practical guide to safety on all kinds of out-of-school activities and educational visits, from visits to local factories to skiing trips abroad...

Overcoming Disadvantage in Education..