Male, T;
Alhouti, I;
(2015)
Developing the Leadership Capability of School Principals at Public Intermediate Schools in Kuwait.
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(Proceedings) The 11th Annual Conference of the British Education Studies Association (BESA), 25th – 26th of June 2015, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.
(pp. pp. 1-22).
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Abstract
Kuwait is facing a set of challenges in its education system. Some of these challenges are related to the quality of education and some are related to school administration, especially in training programmes and leadership skills. To avoid these challenges, the Kuwait Ministry of Education has established a long-term strategy to reform the education system, and the Ministry gives the schools the main value in this strategy. These challenges increase the pressure on school leaders. Consequently, the quality of school principals is significant in these reforms; they should have the capability to lead the schools during the reform process. Educational leadership is given wide attention across the world because of its position in schools and thus in our lives. Therefore, schools need to be guided by leaders of a high quality, which prepared well to give them the capability to be effective leaders. This is a research project aims to help with the development of the leadership capability of principals in intermediate schools in Kuwait by looking closely at their skills and the preparation and development programmes that are available to them. Ten intermediate school principals will be interviewed in order to understand directly from them the qualities that they consider school principals need to lead public schools in Kuwait and whether or not their preparation was good. It also aims to explore different leader preparation programmes that are now available in other countries and to look at which ones may be suitable for the Kuwaiti context to be in the suggestions.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Developing the Leadership Capability of School Principals at Public Intermediate Schools in Kuwait |
| Event: | The 11th Annual Conference of the British Education Studies Association (BESA), 25th – 26th of June 2015, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK |
| Location: | Cardiff, UK |
| Dates: | 25 June 2015 - 27 June 2015 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.13140/RG.2.1.4696.6800 |
| Publisher version: | http://educationstudies.org.uk/about-besa/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | School, Principal, Leadership, Education, Kuwait |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472994 |
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