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Promoting Leadership in Australian Universities
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Bradley, Andrew P.; Grice, Tim; Paulsen, Neil – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
In this paper we review current practices for developing and promoting academic leadership in universities. We consider the forms of leadership that are appropriate for academic organisations, while exploring the types of leadership favoured by recruitment and promotion committees. Using the Australian higher education context as a case study, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Leadership Styles, College Administration
A Distributed Leadership Change Process Model for Higher Education
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Jones, Sandra; Harvey, Marina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
The higher education sector operates in an increasingly complex global environment that is placing it under considerable stress and resulting in widespread change to the operating context and leadership of higher education institutions. The outcome has been the increased likelihood of conflict between academics and senior leaders, presaging the…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Leadership Styles, Change Strategies
Critical Challenges and Dilemmas for Catholic Education Leadership Internationally
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Gleeson, Jim – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2015
This paper considers the challenges faced by contemporary Catholic Education systems with particular reference to the contrast between the prevailing neo-liberal agenda and gospel values. It explicates this contrast from the perspectives of current critiques of the influence of the new manageralism in education and relevant literature on Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Barriers
Australian Public Universities: Are They Practising a Corporate Approach to Governance?
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Christopher, Joseph – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This article draws on the multi-theoretical approach to governance and a qualitative research method to examine the extent to which the corporate approach is practised in Australian public universities. The findings reveal that in meeting the needs of multiple stakeholders, universities are faced with a number of structural, legalistic, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Public Colleges, Governance
School Leaders Leading: Professional Responsibility Not Accountability as the Key Focus
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Cranston, Neil – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The last decade or so has seen an emerging literature supporting the position that school leaders and school leadership are important. This article argues, however, that recent developments in the area of school leadership have led to an orthodoxy that needs to be challenged and tested. It is an orthodoxy that has been driven essentially by those…
Descriptors: Accountability, Professional Identity, Professional Autonomy, Educational Administration
The Impact of High Stakes Testing: The Australian Story
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Klenowski, Val; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
High stakes testing in Australia was introduced in 2008 by way of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Currently, every year all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are assessed on the same days using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy. In 2010 the…
Descriptors: Evidence, National Curriculum, Student Evaluation, High Stakes Tests