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Nana Yaw Agyeman; Venessa Aphane – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2024
Schools are under intense pressure to improve quality and achieve long-term educational outcomes. To improve education, schools' teaching and learning environments must be improved. This research evaluated the various leadership philosophies used in South African schools to improve teaching and learning. The study's qualitative methodology…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles, Instructional Improvement, Principals
Temoso, Omphile; Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung; Myeki, Lindikaya – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
The performance of a university depends on departmental activities in a network framework. The university is efficient only if these departments are efficient in their operations. The connection between departments is fundamentally complicated and should be scrutinised to offer more suitable ways for more enhancement. However, to our knowledge, no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Departments, Networks, Performance
Tapala, Tshepo T.; Fuller, Molly; Mentz, Kobus – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
Departmental Heads (DH) has huge responsibilities of heading phases, departments, and teaching of subjects. At the same time, they need to focus on their leadership and management tasks as senior teachers. The predicament of being a teacher and leader-manager is exacerbated by more expectations from the principals and school management teams…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum
Matshediso Rebecca Modise – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
This research paper explored pedagogical leadership and its implementation by Departmental Heads (DHs) regarding the supervision and support of Reception year (Grade R) teachers in the Gauteng North District public schools, South Africa. Three objectives were framed for this study which applied the Atlas Ti software to analyse qualitative data.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Department Heads
Blose, Sibonelo; Khuzwayo, Ndumiso Quincy – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
The move toward more shared and participatory approaches to leadership is gaining momentum in South African schools. This move is underpinned by the supreme law of the country -- the Constitution which informs all laws including education law. Specifically, the National Education Policy Act No.27 of 1996 fosters democracy and wider participation…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Dube-Xaba, Zanele; Makae, Malehlohonolo Precious – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2022
Purpose: The aim of quality assessment is to support the development of learners' competencies as required in 21st century economies. This paper aims to analyse the role and understanding of heads of department (HoDs) regarding quality assessment and the moderation of school-based assessment (SBA) tasks in tourism, which is a subject in the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Secondary School Curriculum, Quality Assurance, Department Heads
Rodney Duffett; Dylan Cromhout; Pieter Steenkamp – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
A majority of service learning (SL) studies focus on the student benefits and challenges, whereas few consider the organization (community partner) viewpoint. This study examines the value that small businesses place on a marketing-oriented SL project run by the academic Marketing Department at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Marketing, Professional Education, Service Learning
Mampane, Sharon Thabo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
This conceptual paper draws on the understanding and application of institutional performance management system (IPMS) by managers in a higher education institution's department. Managers in HEIs [higher education institutions] are tasked to develop and support staff at all job levels and are accountable for their performance. The implementation…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Departments, Higher Education, Job Performance
Xolani Minenhle Ngcobo; Ferina Marimuthu; Lesley June Stainbank – Cogent Education, 2024
South African universities are facing significant financial challenges that threaten their sustainability. Factors such as reduced government funding, unpredictable tuition collection, and the need to generate additional revenue have become major concerns for universities. This study investigates the perceptions of academic and non-academic staff…
Descriptors: Universities, Income, Sustainability, Technology Education
Kharoon Nisha Rasool; Parvathy Naidoo – South African Journal of Education, 2024
In 2015, a Member of the Executive Council (MEC) of the Gauteng provincial legislature, South Africa, introduced the "Classroom of the Future" programme in previously disadvantaged schools, allowing an integration of information and communication technology into classrooms. In this article we focus on the sustainability of ICT in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Sustainability
Fourie, Laurette; Naidoo, Parvathy – Perspectives in Education, 2022
On a global level, COVID-19 has shaken the foundations of every sector. In the South African education context, the traditional methods of teaching, learning, and managing schools changed drastically overnight and management roles and responsibilities were pushed to unprecedented levels. Moreover, the roles of middle leaders and managers took…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Administrator Attitudes, Participative Decision Making, COVID-19
Breedt, Ilze; Beckmann, Johan; du Plessis, Andre – Perspectives in Education, 2021
This qualitative study sought to explore the experiences of stakeholders at independent schools during and after the transition from a not-profit governance approach to a for-profit governance approach after a change of ownership. Section 29(3) of the Constitution of South Africa provides that "everyone has the right to establish and…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Proprietary Schools, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries
Andrason, Alexander – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
The present article is dedicated to the hyper-hierarchization of small-scale organizational spaces (and the most immediate ones for most academics)--university departments. By using the anarchist critique of hierarchies to deconstruct the architecture of an undisclosed department located at one of the South African universities, the author…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Universities, Power Structure, Institutional Characteristics
Bipath, Keshi; Nkabinde, Mfulathelwa M. B. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2018
Background: The Global Competitiveness report shows that the quality of primary education in South Africa ranks 132 out of 144 countries. Statistics released by the Department of Basic Education in South Africa reveal that the average mark for Grade 3 learners in the Annual National Assessment (ANA) was 35% for literacy and 28% for numeracy. Aim:…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Moeketsane, Maribaneng; Jita, Loyiso; Jita, Thuthukile – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Too often, instructional leadership is perceived as an area of competence for principals with less focus on teachers, especially those with subject leadership responsibilities. In the study reported on here we investigated the perspectives of subject leaders and their perceived competence in instructional leadership as a basis for its correlation.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Responsibility, Leadership Role