ABSTRACT
The need for greater involvement in school management of those in middle management posts has been strongly recommended in a School Teachers’ Review Body Report. It argues that ‘substantial improvements’ are needed in several aspects of school management (School Teachers’ Review Body 1993:6). It is particularly critical of those heads, deputies and senior teachers who are:
• failing to focus on pupil achievement; • making policy decisions but failing to implement them; • failing to make full use of those in middle management positions; • showing themselves to be concerned with efficient administration at the
expense of ‘good strategic management’; • failing to motivate or set clear targets.
