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Direct linkRowlands, Julie – Gender and Education, 2019
While academic governance does not produce teaching and research, it provides the conditions that enable them to take place. The principal academic governance body within universities, the academic board (also known as the academic senate or faculty senate), therefore plays a key role in enabling universities to conduct their core business.…
Descriptors: Governance, Governing Boards, Role, Higher Education
Mills, Colin – Literacy, 2011
This article is linked to the theme of the special issue through its focus on micropolitical analysis of the changing role of "policy drivers", mediating national policy through interactions with primary school heads and teachers. The central arguments draw on case studies undertaken in two primary schools where changes related to…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Case Studies
Pounce, Martin – Management in Education, 2008
The principle of lay people taking important strategic decisions and holding lead professionals to account has a long and illustrious pedigree in British public life; it applies to police authorities, primary care trusts, local councils as well as schools. However, influential voices have been raised over recent months about the suitability of…
Descriptors: Governance, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Effectiveness, Leadership Effectiveness
Peer reviewedShearn, David; And Others – School Organisation, 1995
Examines how control and administrative responsibility is divided, in practice, between the headteacher and the governors, and whether such responsibilities are agreed upon or disputed. Discusses a study of 21 British schools that examines this issue. When there is agreement about roles, a stable situation exists. Where there is no agreement,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Pfnister, Allan O. – 1977
The evolution and role of the lay board of control (trustees, directors) of higher educational institutions and the part the board has played or may play in maintaining diversity in the American system are examined. The evolution of the lay board in the United States and in the United Kingdom is described. The lay board has become "the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board Administrator Relationship, Centralization, Comparative Education
Download full textO'Reilly, Robert C. – 1994
A study was conducted to examine current concepts and procedures of community college governance in the United States and the United Kingdom. Agendas and minutes of board meetings were analyzed and interviews were conducted with administrators and board members at four institutions, one rural and one urban from each country. The participating…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Board Administrator Relationship, College Administration, Community Colleges
