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School Structure, School Autonomy and the Tail. Special Paper No. 29
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Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo – Centre for Economic Performance, 2013
In this paper, we survey the UK-based literature on school structures and school autonomy to identify settings in which alternative and more autonomous school arrangements can improve the educational attainments of pupils in the bottom tail of the achievement distribution. We also present new evidence on the effect of school academies on the…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Nontraditional Education
Setting Things Right? Swedish Upper Secondary School Reform in a 40-Year Perspective
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Lundahl, Lisbeth; Arreman, Inger Erixon; Lundstrom, Ulf; Ronnberg, Linda – European Journal of Education, 2010
This article analyses reforms addressing and affecting the curriculum and organisation of Swedish upper secondary education over 40 years, up to an initiative by the present non-socialist government. The aim is to analyse the current reform of upper secondary education and relate it to previous reforms during a 40-year period in terms of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Educational Change, Vocational Education, School Organization
Effects of Decentralization on School Resources
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Ahlin, Asa; Mork, Eva – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Sweden has undertaken major national reforms of its school sector, which, consequently, has been classified as one of the most decentralized ones in the OECD. This paper investigates whether local tax base, grants, and preferences affected local school resources differently as decentralization took place. We find that municipal tax base affects…
Descriptors: School Organization, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Grants
Where Does Time Go? Teaching and Time Use from the Perspective of Teachers
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Nyroos, Mikaela – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
During the last three decades Swedish education has undergone radical decentralisation involving increased school autonomy. One aspect of this change is the gradual weakening of the state regulation of teaching time. Thus, Sweden is somewhat of an extreme in the EU. This is accentuated by a five-year experiment, where 900 compulsory schools were…
Descriptors: State Regulation, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Administrative Organization
The School Principal in Sweden: A Boss or a Leader? Implications for the Competence of School Principals.
Nytell, Ulf – 1991
Management and leadership as a consequence of organizational tasks and structure are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the application of leadership theories from market-oriented organizations to more regulated organizations such as the Swedish school system. The Swedish educational system, according to Berg's (1988) "cross…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Leadership
The Democratisation of Schooling. ESA844, Administrative Context of Schooling.
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Watson, Hugh – 1985
This volume is part of a series of monographs from Australia devoted to outlining an alternative approach, based on neo-Marxist concepts, to educational administration. The introductory essay in the volume is an argument for the democratization of education by establishing a case for changing schools: by discussing industrial democracy as a…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Innovation