ABSTRACT
A large number of activities on which teachers spend their time are more concerned with the routines of the school as an organisation than with direct teaching and its associated preparation. For this reason we have used the term administration to cover all these activities. However, we recognise that the term itself can bear a range of meanings, and in its more normal usage tends to mean clerical and managerial activities, handling paperwork and engaging in meetings. In our use of the term such activities are included, but in addition a wide range of other activities is covered. The way we use administration, as a term covering several very disparate activities, is therefore unconventional. Twelve sub-categories of activity are involved. Of these twelve, only the first two, school administration and examination administration, would be considered conventionally as administration.
