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Fei Wang; Katina Pollock; Cameron Hauseman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Vice-principals' (VPs) work is intensifying in its complexity and volume but the changing nature of their work is not thoroughly documented. This article focuses on the often-overlooked VP's role and records the factors that evidence the intensifying work conditions for VPs. The data for this article come from a large-scale online survey that has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Administrator Role, Work Environment
Khumalo, Jan B.; Van der Vyver, C. P. – South African Journal of Education, 2020
The development of critical skills for deputy principals is a matter which deserves attention, owing to the critical role which deputy principals are expected to play in school management. However, this area of research is neglected and has received limited attention in the literature that focuses on school leadership development. In this vein,…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Secondary Schools, Skill Development, Management Development
Ibay, Samera Batao; Pa-alisbo, Mark Anthony Cenas – World Journal of Education, 2020
The knowledge and ability of the individuals in a managerial position are to fulfill some specific management activities or tasks. Managerial skills are important for many reasons. Being a manager in an educational setting is a position to act as an effective leader and problem-solver in many simple and complex situations. However, in Thailand, it…
Descriptors: School Administration, Catholic Schools, Secondary Schools, Professional Development
Balikçi, Abdullah – Online Submission, 2021
Technology increases its impact in every aspect of life. Because technology is a multidimensional concept, it can be defined in different ways. Simsek & Akin (2013) define the concept as the whole of the techniques that people use in their interaction with their environment. Technology has an impact on education as in other fields. Filho,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, School Administration
Lipscombe, Kylie; Grice, Christine; Tindall-Ford, Sharon; De-Nobile, John – School Leadership & Management, 2020
In Australia, there is a national education agenda for school improvement with an increasing focus on how school leaders can fulfil this agenda. As school principals are arguably faced with increasing demands, the importance of school middle leaders is increasing. This article presents the initial findings from a larger project on middle…
Descriptors: Middle Management, School Administration, Assistant Principals, Leadership Role
Cohen, Rinat; Schechter, Chen – Educational Practice and Theory, 2018
This study examined the coping strategies utilized by new assistant principals (APs) in order to establish their professional and managerial authority as they enter their role. This article is based on a qualitative study of 23 APs at different stages of their careers, deriving categories from 37 semi-structured interviews (14 were repeated ones,…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Coping, Stress Management, Stress Variables
Ng, Ashley Yoon-Mooi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This paper examines the preparation of school principals in Malaysia, and the aspiration of the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025 to ensure high-performing school leaders in every school. It reports on the principal preparatory programme, the National Professional Qualification for Educational Leaders, which is mandatory to those who aspire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Administrator Education, Principals
Abdul Razzak, Nina – Professional Development in Education, 2013
With advances in education, the pressure on public schools in Bahrain to improve and raise their quality standards to the level of international best practices has increased and the demands placed on school leaders in this respect have become immense. Many in leadership positions, however, are inadequately prepared to live up to such demands,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Instructional Leadership, School Administration
Earley, Peter; Weindling, Dick; Bubb, Sara; Glenn, Meli – School Leadership & Management, 2009
The recruitment and retention of senior school leaders is high on the UK Government's agenda with much attention currently being given to succession planning. Future Leaders and other fast track leadership development programmes are, in part, a response to this "crisis" brought about by demographic change--many headteachers are due to…
Descriptors: Management Development, Leadership Training, Recruitment, Personnel Management
Michaelidou, Athena; Pashiardis, Petros – Professional Development in Education, 2009
School heads and assistant headteachers in Cyprus attend in-service training programmes as part of their professional development, after they are promoted to their new leadership post. A review of the literature highlights the significance of a needs analysis when designing and/or reforming in-service training programmes. Nevertheless, there seems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Principals, Questionnaires
Daresh, John C.; Male, Trevor – 2001
It is generally accepted that effective principals make for effective schools. In the United Kingdom, the key player providing needed intelligence, vision, energy, and thinking is called the headteacher. The issue considered broadly in this paper is educational leadership in the UK. It addresses the critical role of the headteacher and how to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Beginning Principals, Elementary Secondary Education

Ekholm, Mats – Education and Urban Society, 1992
Major findings from a five-year study of the impact of the Swedish School Leader Education Program (SLEP), a program of leadership development for principals and vice principals, are reported. Despite research design difficulties, results for 35 school management areas and 66 evaluators suggest a positive impact of the SLEP. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Assistant Principals, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education

Johnston, Brian; Deer, Christine E. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1984
The effects on principals in South Australia of Human Achievement Skills training, aimed at developing interpersonal, human relations, and personnel management skills, were measured by conducting interviews with trainees and staff members 3 months after training and by obtaining responses to organizational climate questionnaires before and after…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Assistant Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries