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| Levacic, Rosalind | 6 |
| Glover, Derek | 1 |
| Marren, Eamon | 1 |
| Thomas, George | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 5 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 5 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
| Guides - Non-Classroom | 1 |
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Peer reviewedLevacic, Rosalind; Glover, Derek – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1997
Britain's new inspection system requires that schools be assessed for efficiency and value for money. Drawing on a content analysis of 66 secondary school inspection reports, this paper considers implementation problems and whether schools have adopted the rational approach to resource management. Few schools had successfully adopted all elements…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Educational Improvement, Efficiency
Peer reviewedLevacic, Rosalind – Journal of Education Policy, 1993
Examines local management of British schools in term of organizational form theory. The 1988 Education Reform Act was designed to change the local education authority from a unitary to a multidivisional (M-form) structure, though the LEA's regulatory role was left undeveloped. Without a quality assurance function, decentralized management…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Models, Organizational Theories
Levacic, Rosalind – 2002
This document is a chapter in "The Principles and Practice of Educational Management," which aims to provide a systematic and analytical introduction to the study of educational management. The structure of the book reflects the main substantive areas of educational leadership and management, and most of the major themes are covered in the…
Descriptors: Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedMarren, Eamon; Levacic, Rosalind – Educational Management and Administration, 1994
Summarizes research into the positive and negative views about school-based management (local management of schools) held by senior managers, governors, and classroom teachers in 11 schools within 1 British local education authority. LMS has concentrated financial tasks within a small elite group of senior managers and governors, with governors…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLevacic, Rosalind – Educational Management and Administration, 1992
Offers an interim review of the implementation of the local management of schools (LMS) initiative. A model for LMS as an organizational form termed "decentralized management" is advanced and applied critically to understand aspects of the restructuring currently taking place within the British educational system. (48 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedThomas, George; Levacic, Rosalind – Journal of Education Policy, 1991
Britain's 1988 Education Reform Act mandates increased centralization (through a national curriculum and testing program) and greater managerial decentralization and competition between schools. This article discusses the role of the central government Department of Education and Science in requiring local education authorities to implement local…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Budgets, Centralization, Decentralization
