International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 10 Issue 2

Developing constructive tension between teaching and research

Jennifer Rowley

Indicates that many universities are revisiting the issue of the development of an integrated teaching and research environment. Explores strategies which can be adopted to…

Re‐engineering school leadership

Brent Davies

Re‐engineering, or, to call it by its correct name, business process re‐engineering, has been sweeping the business world for the last few years. But does it have any implications…

China’s higher education under reform

Qiang Lianqing

Describes the programme of reconstructing higher education which is currently under way in China. Outlines the history of formal education in China from the beginning of the…

Malaysian educative leadership: interim research findings

Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid, Abdul Wahab bin Abdul Ghani, Bakhtiar bin Mansor, Maheswari Kandasamy, Yusro Abdul Haddad, Lee Ong Kim, R.J.S. “Mac”

Summarizes the policy context, the methodology and the interim findings of a research project intended to produce an indigenous theory of educative leadership in Malaysia. Reports…

The education‐business partnership: an evaluation

Gerald Vinten

Suggests that the aim of cultivating closer links between education and business has become the accepted wisdom and practice in the UK over more than the past decade. The…

From inertia to turbulence: an analysis of central government’s strategy for managing the education service

John Brennan

Points out that the last decade has seen the education service go through phases from inertia to turbulence to consolidation; a really radical programme of reform has been…

School restructuring American style: flattening the decision‐making pyramid

Grace Dondero

Highlights the fact that the call for educational reform in the USA remains a persistent concern for educators. Suggests that one avenue receiving considerable attention to meet…