International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 24 Issue 4

Gender and leadership styles in single‐sex academic institutions

Hanan M. Taleb

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between gender and female leadership styles in a single‐sex academic institution in Saudi Arabia.

Higher education reform in Germany: How the aims of the Bologna process can be simultaneously supported and missed

Olaf Winkel

The purpose of this paper is to provide information about the current reform of higher education in Germany, which can be described as German reading of the Bologna process, about…

Education system reform in China after 1978: some practical implications

Miantao Sun

This paper aims to provide an overview of education system reform in China since 1978, and its practical implications.

The clash of evaluations: In search of the missing link between school accountability and school improvement – experiences from Cyprus

Stefan Brauckmann, Petros Pashiardis

The main purpose of this paper is to examine more closely the tension between, on the one hand, forms of internal school improvement based on internal evaluation measures and, on…

Swift and smart decision making: heuristics that work

Wayne K. Hoy, C.J. Tarter

The aim of this paper is to examine the research literature on decision making and identify and develop a set of heuristics that work for school decision makers.

Student recruitment strategies in higher education: promoting excellence and diversity?

Nicoline Frølich, Bjørn Stensaker

This paper seeks to analyse how excellence and diversity are addressed in student recruitment strategies, and how these strategies are developed in eight Norwegian higher…

Rethinking Educational Leadership: From Improvement to Transformation

Brent Davies

Editorial

Brian Roberts