ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the debates on selection and assignment of school principals and criteria such as openness, equality, and the political state of school principalship. It looks at the inequality issue as part of administrative power that has recently been debated in the agendas of educational administration researchers of the region. The chapter also looks especially at discrimination issues in cases of political, ethnic, and religious affiliation to identify critical issues and to draw some conclusions about inequalities that might be noteworthy for other educational administration contexts internationally. Inspired by Drucker, we tag maladministration in public services as the sins of public administration. Tagging maladministration as 'the sins' of educational administration, the author discusses maladministration in the principal recruitment process of Ministry for National Education as first, a result of power relationships in assigning and/or recruiting principals and the policy of government as the central organisation, and second, as an issue of inequality.
