Management

Who leads in a quality school?

Who are the leaders in a quality school? The principal and members of the senior management team? Yes, that's part of the answer, but not totally correct. There are many other leaders in a quality school. Rigidly led schools are often tightly con...

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Nip fraud in the bud

What strategies are in place to prevent or limit the fraudulent use of school monies? Although one would like to think of schools as places of integrity and trust, they are not immune to the risk of theft and fraud. What can schools do to prevent th...

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Qualities of good governors

Next to the national poll, the election of the school governing bodies is the biggest in the country. In June schools will choose their new governors. the Teacher gives guidance What are the qualities that those who want the best for their school s...

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The triumph of hope

The Learning Channel's Top Class reality television programme, on its return visits to the 10 schools that were selected by the national department of education five weeks later, showed very clearly the triumph of hope over experience. Earlier 10 bu...

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Change creeps slowly

Those who follow the Learning Channel's Top Class programme might agree that the series would have done well to remember the words of former British prime minister, Harold Wilson: "A week is a long time in politics." But five weeks was a very short t...

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Dependency to management

The 10 secondary schools in the Learning Channel's Top Class reality programme have many problems in common - irrespective of whether they are in rural or urban areas. The major problem for the principals is in leading their schools from a culture o...

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Getting down to business

The viewers of SABC1 and Learning Channel's Top Class programme may have observed the same reactions as I did when watching the CEOs in the schools that they are helping to turn around: curiosity, compassion, followed by frustration and culminating i...

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A quick fix?

The Learning Channel's new Top Class programme, which is screened from this month, placed 10 CEOs from top businesses into 10 underachieving schools identified by the national department of education as having the potential to do better. Top Class...