Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 40 Issue 5

Strategic planning and school management: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?

Les Bell

Strategic planning, in the form of school improvement planning, has become the dominant approach to school management in English schools. This has evolved from earlier forms of…

Schools as learning organisations: The case for system, teacher and student learning

Halia Silins, Bill Mulford

An Australian government‐funded four‐year research project involving 96 secondary schools, over 5,000 students and 3,700 teachers and their principals has provided a rich source…

The impact of principal leadership behaviors on instructional practice and student engagement

David M. Quinn

For decades educators have espoused the importance of the principal as the instructional leader of the school. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between…

Planning for future leadership of schools: an Australian study

Tony d’Arbon, Patrick Duignan, Deirdre J. Duncan

There is growing evidence of a worldwide shortage of persons willing to apply for vacant principal positions in schools. Reports a study about why more persons are not applying…

The configuration of the university image and its relationship with the satisfaction of students

Asunción Beerli Palacio, Gonzalo Díaz Meneses, Pedro J. Pérez Pérez

This work centers on the study of the image of universities, with the aims of explaining the process of image forming by means of its different components, both in its cognitive…