ABSTRACT
Administration is a two-way process: the good administrator neither indulges in fanciful thinking without regard to practical consequences, nor merely reacts to external stimuli. The first is relatively small, the kind that the beginner in administration may have to deal with; the second a major planning exercise in which he might, with experience, be asked to assist. The only financial pressure possible was of a negative kind: Circular 13/66 a year later notified authorities that no new building could be approved unless it fitted in with secondary reorganization policy. The administrative operation describes one in which an authority not having of its own initiative submitted plans for reorganization nevertheless accepted Government Policy. Most of the other characteristic elements of educational administration can be seen in the processes that have been described.
