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Potentially Aspiring Headteachers in Small Welsh Primary Schools: Education professionals that policy makers forgot?

Wallace, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-9689 and Rogers, Glyn 2001. Potentially Aspiring Headteachers in Small Welsh Primary Schools: Education professionals that policy makers forgot? School Leadership & Management 21 (4) , pp. 441-461. 10.1080/13632430120108952

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Abstract

This article considers why central government policies are often insensitive to the range of contexts in which they are to be implemented. It reports on small-scale research into one instance of such 'policy insensitivity' associated with the low take-up of candidature for the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) among teachers in small primary schools during the early years of the original NPQH assessment and training scheme in Wales. Findings are reported on perceptions of LEA advisers, aspiring headteachers and their headteachers about the under-recruitment problem. It is noted how the revised NPQH policy appears to be addressing some of the problems identified. The wider significance of policy insensitivity for centralised policy making is highlighted.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 1363-2434
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 10:45
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/41233

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