International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 12 Issue 1

Whither market forces in education?

Stephen Gorard

College climate has been defined as the collective personality of a college. The University of Cyprus, being a new institution, wanted to find out the kind of climate which exists…

Moving towards a quality climate at the University of Cyprus

Petros Pashiardis

Provides an overview of some of the findings of a recently completed study of school choice in 33 local schools which may be indicative of the effect of an increase in the…

Management by fact: a model application of performance indicators by an educational leadership department

Phillip E. Messner, Max L. Ruhl

Describes ongoing monitoring of a US department of educational leadership’s performance indices and reports on the processes that support a management by fact (MBF) strategy…

Reinventing school leadership ‐ back to the future in the UK?

Terry Creissen, Linda Ellison

There have, over the last 15 years, been many UK government initiatives aimed at improving the leadership and management of schools but there has never been any compulsion to…

Research on total teacher effectiveness: conception strategies

Yin Cheong Cheng, Kwok Tung Tsui

Based on the conception of total teacher effectiveness, aims to develop strategies for conceptualizing teacher effectiveness research. From the new conception, the units of…

Integrating Europe through Cooperation among Universities. The Experiences of the TEMPUS Programme

Tom Nolan