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Peer reviewedWebb, Rosemary; Vulliamy, Graham – Educational Management & Administration, 1996
Documents the growing tension between primary heads' administrative and professional roles and between top-down and collegial management styles, based on qualitative data from a national sample of 50 Welsh and English schools. Highlights the 1988 Education Reform Act's emphasis on monitoring and quality assurance and headteachers' developing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collegiality, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHarper, Harriet – Educational Management & Administration, 2000
A research project examined what form of organizational structures have been adopted within British further-education colleges 5 years after their incorporation and removal from local-education authority control. Colleges are representing their structures as market models (alongside a clan culture), rather than Weberian bureaucracies. (Contains 29…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Colleges
Peer reviewedRoderick, Gordon W. – History of Education, 2001
Discusses the Aberdare Committee created to remedy shortcomings arising from a non-intervention policy in Welsh secondary education, eminating from the 1881 Report of the Committee on Intermedicate and Higher Education (Wales). Focuses on three commissions: the Caredon, Taunton, and Devonshire. Discusses the committee outcomes regarding English…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
