Local Management of Schools (LMS) has placed considerable pressures on heads, managers and school governors. It has raised the issues of budget management and wider decision making and on top of this has been the additional pressure of OFSTED inspection. Drawing on their research into 18 secondary schools, the authors of this work examine the practicalities of managing a budget. They discuss their findings from the perspectives of all those involved, including parents, pupils, governors, teachers, heads and support staff. Using a variety of case studies, the book illustrates and analyzes the...
Local Management of Schools (LMS) has placed considerable pressures on heads, managers and school governors. It has raised the issues of budget manage...
Under the 1988 Education Act, schools became autonomous bodies with control over their own budgets. This process of decentralization of school management has been followed by other countries worldwide. Based on empirical research incorporating data from over 800 schools and collected over three years, this book takes self-management as its starting point. From this, the book examines how management systems have changed across a range of countries, often with very different natures and purposes. It also studies in detail the particular developments in the UK system, which has undergone one of...
Under the 1988 Education Act, schools became autonomous bodies with control over their own budgets. This process of decentralization of school managem...
