ABSTRACT
In the programme structure, one of the key activities, Organisation, had as its objective: 'To provide departments of the best size to achieve an effective distribution of teaching staff in creating educationally and economically viable units.' The standards set in this can help to ensure that the impact of improving pupil-teacher ratios is significant. Two points must be made at once. A comparison like this is only the beginning of the analysis: all kinds of explanations and ramifications will present themselves when such an exercise is attempted. The second, slightly more sophisticated, example, takes as its measures of the impact of an the local authority (LEA) secondary education programme: The numbers staying on at school after the statutory leaving age, and the numbers securing university and further education awards. It is here where a system such as planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS) can help by confronting the educator with the logic of his assumptions.
