Opting for Self-Management

by Davies, Brent; Anderson, Lesley

• ISBN13: 9780415073479
• ISBN10: 0415073472
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
The context and the rationale for grant-maintained status	p. 3
How schools achieve grant-maintained status	p. 12
A case study of opting out: Small Heath School	p. 25
Managing a school and developing a grant-maintained ethos	p. 42
Managing finance in a grant-maintained school	p. 56
Managing capital development: contracts and premises	p. 73
Managing the school: the role of governors and staff management structures	p. 81
Managing staff development in a grant-maintained school	p. 93
The advantages of grant-maintained status	p. 107
The disadvantages of grant-maintained status	p. 114
Managing grant-maintained schools in the 1990s	p. 122
App. A A review of opting out to date - number of schools	p. 139
App. B A review of opting out to date - analysis of schools	p. 148
App. C Grant-Maintained Schools - Quality Assurance: A Voluntary Code of Practice	p. 155
App. D The experience of going grant-maintained: the perceptions of AMMA teacher representatives	p. 157
Index	p. 166
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