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Adrian Jarvis; Simranjeet K. Judge – Management in Education, 2024
Award-bearing transnational professional development training has received little attention in the literature. By taking a longitudinal mixed-methods approach, this project's researchers investigated the ways in which participants on a World Bank-funded programme practised leadership at the start of their training, before revisiting them a year…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Recognition (Achievement), Principals, Foreign Countries
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Simkins, Tim; Garrick, Ros – Management in Education, 2012
This paper explores the factors which influence the effectiveness of formal development programmes targeted at multi-agency teams in children's services. It draws on two studies of the National College for School Leadership's Multi-Agency Teams Development programme, reporting key characteristics of the programme, short-term outcomes in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Children, National Programs
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Naylor, Philip; Gkolia, Chrysanthi; Brundrett, Mark – Management in Education, 2006
The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) Programme, Leading from the Middle (LftM), was introduced in 2003 and was designed to help improve leadership at middle levels in schools and to impact on the effectiveness of teams of teachers in improving pupil progress. This article is a report on an evaluative study of how the program has…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Attitudes, Teamwork, Professional Development
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Simkins, Tim; Bush, Tony; Wright, Nigel; Colquhoun, Derek; Earley, Peter; Conner, Colin – Management in Education, 2005
A symposium was organized at the BELMAS/SCRELM Research Conference in July 2004 to explore the issues arising from the experiences of those contracted by the National College for School Leadership to evaluate its programmes. This article presents four contributions that drew on a wide range of evaluation experience and a response from a…
Descriptors: College Programs, Instructional Leadership, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Jopling, Michael; Spender, Barbara – Management in Education, 2006
The Networked Learning Community (NLC) programme has been a major research and development activity of the National College of School Leadership (NCSL). One hundred and four voluntary, funded school networks were set up following a process of bidding and selection operated by a core NCSL team, the Networked Learning Group (NLG). A second tranche…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Network Analysis, Social Networks, Shared Resources and Services