Management problems in further education

Abstract

The application of organizational theory to educational institutions is providing a welcome insight into the functioning of the Further Education college. Like other organizations, schools and colleges have relationships with the external environment which may closely circumscribe the operation of any particular institution. The work of the FE college is constrained by a variety of external factors, as in the field of curriculum development where the number of examining bodies is almost legion. Moreover, there is a case for suggesting that, viewed historically, further education has been subjected to an increasing number of major environmental constraints of which the establishment of the Regional Advisory Councils, the introduction of Industrial Training Boards and the implementation of the binary policy are conspicuous examples. For this reason alone it becomes especially important to analyse the internal dynamics of the FE college. This paper considers some of the implications of the changes which have occurred in the structure of the colleges during the last three or four decades, in the anticipation that it may shed additional light upon the functioning of the modern college organization.

Citation

Thorns, D. (1974), "Management problems in further education", Education + Training, Vol. 16 No. 10, pp. 238-239. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001833