This study explored and described managers’ experiences of School-Based Management (SBM) practices at secondary schools in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Scholars of SBM worldwide regard SBM as a way of decentralising ...
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of secondary school heads about the effectiveness of result based management (RBM) in schools. For over a decade since its inception as a public sector management approach, the ...
The aim of this study was to find out the perceptions on the principals’ implementation of instructional leadership in the Amajuba District of KwaZulu-Natal with a view to provide guidelines that may be employed to enhance ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the servant-leadership practices of principals in faith-based Christian schools of South Africa. For the purpose of this study the researcher employed a qualitative case study design, ...
The school’s ranking determines the state’s funding allocation to public schools on the Resource Targeting List. The funding policy on education equity is characterised by policy prescripts like quintile ranking and exemption ...
This work explores the continuous professional teacher development point system policy and the implications it has on the professional development of teachers. A qualitative study was undertaken in two secondary schools ...
This study focuses on the South African principals’ perceptions of shared leadership and its relevance for school discipline. In a mainly qualitative investigation, empirical data from ten secondary schools in the Nkangala ...
The phenomena of stakeholder identification and involvement in the affairs of public entities
has become of great importance in the recent years. Literature review reveals the extent of
knowledge and discloses gaps that ...
The study identifies how different stakeholders perceive service quality improvement initiatives in public higher education institutions in Ethiopia. For this purpose, a mixed research methodology was employed. Furthermore, ...
The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders’ perspectives on TVET college and industry partnerships for the employability of TVET college graduates. The study investigates the nature of current partnerships, the ...
In the 21st century, there is a growing realisation that providing principals with the necessary opportunities of training in leadership and management skills has become increasingly important as a way to increase school ...
For more than three decades, the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Reports have studied and benchmarked the many factors underpinning national competitiveness. The quality of higher education and training ...
This study investigated the management of substance abuse at a girls school. The researcher
used a qualitative approach and designed the research as a single case study. Multiple data
collection methods such as literature ...
Teacher training is a significant and integral component of a sound education system. The
need for quality programmes and relevantly qualified personnel cannot be overemphasised.
Effective learning organisations result ...
The purpose of this study is to explore strategies to effectively mitigate bullying among primary school learners at the Sambandou circuit in the Vhembe East District. The study intended to obtain strategies to effectively ...
Tension between school principals and school governing bodies arises despite a clear demarcation in the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 of the powers and responsibilities of school governing bodies.
The aim of this ...
International teacher migration has emerged as one of the key policy challenges confronting many countries, particularly in Southern Africa, with Botswana, South Africa and Zambia experiencing variable degrees of the ...
Teachers are exposed to stressful situations, of which increasing work demands is but one, leading to an alarming escalation of stress and professional burnout as career risks in the teaching profession. The focus of this ...
This study focuses on the influence of particular teaching strategies that can be used in Environmental Education (EE) and examines how specific methods influence knowledge retention and attitude change.
The aim of the ...
This study explores the narrated experiences of two women principals in their roles as leaders and managers of rural secondary schools in South Africa. Several studies have shown how women principals experience both ...