Examines the stress experienced by 10 teachers involved in a school merger in North England. Teachers were interviewed twice prior to the merger and once after. Results confirm the stressful nature of school mergers. The most acute stress probably stemmed from the uncertainty and lack of information provided, coupled with the threat of…

Increased pace of change and enhanced competition within British education, coupled with threatened or actual school mergers, have brought added pressures to the teaching profession. A study of 76 teachers from 5 Northern Ireland secondary schools that were threatened by merger, had merged, or had not merged revealed that those threatened by…

Provision and organization of local education authority in the United Kingdom is being eroded, because of various central government initiatives. This article examines the effects of opening a city technology college on various comprehensive (secondary) schools and their local education authorities. A new hierarchy of schools now exists.…