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Amanda Keddie; Katrina MacDonald; Brad Gobby; Jill Blackmore; Jane Wilkinson; Scott Eacott; Richard Niesche – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This book explores the social justice implications of school autonomy reform within the context of public education in Australia. It is situated within and framed by global concerns about how public schools are navigating their 'autonomy' within increasingly marketised education systems. Drawing on extensive interviews with stakeholders and five…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Education
Guin, Jacques – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1985
The University of Montpelier I's 1969 statutes permitting maximum autonomy for the faculties of law and economics, medicine, and pharmacology resulted in a well-established division between the university's constituent parts and an unwillingness to pool resources to effect savings. (MSE)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, College Administration, Cooperation
Brown, Daniel J. – 1987
General interest in decentralized decision-making in education is increasing in both Canada and the United States. This paper attempts a preliminary study of school-based management, which shifts some budgetary decision-making authority from the central office to individual schools. Although many academic specialties have explored decentralization…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Decision Making, Efficiency