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Facilitating primary head teacher succession in England: the role of the School Business Manager

Woods, Charlotte; Armstrong, Paul; Pearson, Diana; (2012) Facilitating primary head teacher succession in England: the role of the School Business Manager. School Leadership and Management , 32 (2) pp. 141-157. Green open access

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Abstract

School leadership is significant for student learning, but increased workload and complexity are believed to be in part responsible for the difficulties internationally in managing succession, with experienced leaders leaving the profession prematurely and potential future leaders reluctant to take on the role. This article draws on a national government-funded programme of inter-school collaborations in England. Focusing on data from four primary clusters, it explores head teacher perspectives on the ways in which the expertise of a senior School Business Manager was seen to be supportive of head teacher succession within these partnerships through its impacts on the working life of the head teacher at different career stages.

Type: Article
Title: Facilitating primary head teacher succession in England: the role of the School Business Manager
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Keywords: head teacher succession, primary school leadership, professional support staff, School Business Management, Social Sciences(all)
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10012182
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