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Price, David M.; Whalley, Peregrine W. F. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1996
The role of the University Visitor, whose traditional function is to mediate conflict within a university and contribute to its governance, is examined in the context of Australian higher education. Medieval English ecclesiastical origins of the office are described, and calls for abolition are examined. It is argued that the office should be…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Conflict Resolution, Educational History
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Aveling, Nado – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
Between 1999 and 2003 a number of principals (n = 35) from a range of schools in Western Australia were interviewed to investigate the extent to which the state's "Antiracism policy and guidelines for complaint resolution" (1998) had impacted on the day-to-day management of schools. These principals overwhelmingly reported that racism…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Bullying, Foreign Countries, Principals