ABSTRACT
The management of state education systems represents a major share of management enterprises within the public sector. Capital and recurrent expenditure on education uses between a quarter and a third of government spending in the states. Education systems are major employers of public servants, particularly teachers, but also of very significant numbers of clerical and ancillary staff. Indirectly, the operations of school systems provide employment for large numbers of the building trades, in transport, in printing and publishing houses, in food and catering and in clothing and sports goods industries. Education is very big business and consequently its management has an impact on a broad sector of public and private economies.
