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School heads in public institutions are required to work on average 7-8 hours a day, as is the case for most office-based jobs. The hours worked and the list of tasks and responsibilities vary widely across countries. On average across OECD countries, they earn more than teachers and other full-time tertiary-educated workers. However, more than…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Administrator Responsibility, Stress Variables
Peer reviewedDancer, Diane; Blackburn, Vincent – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis, this article examines the efficiency and effectiveness of financial inputs and demographic data for educational outputs as measured by the Year 12 results for New South Wales secondary schools using a panel dataset from 2005 to 2010. Effective schools, in these analyses, are those that have higher Year 12…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Effectiveness, Efficiency, Academic Achievement
Leigh, Andrew – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Can changes in teacher pay encourage more able individuals to enter the teaching profession? So far, studies of the impact of pay on the aptitude distribution of teachers have provided mixed evidence on the extent to which altering teacher salaries represents a feasible solution to the teacher quality problem. One possible reason is that these…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Academic Aptitude, Career Choice, Preservice Teachers
Download full textMcKenzie, Phillip; Keeves, John P. – 1982
A comparative analysis of staff allocation in the six Australian States, the Australian Capital Territory, and New Zealand, this report describes existing structures and policies at the education system level and identifies innovative policies worthy of further examination. After an explanation of the background and conceptual framework of this…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Angus, Max – 1990
Decentralization efforts in Australia after the publishing of the "Better Schools" report in 1987 are described in this paper. An overview of the implementation process concludes that the transition is halfway completed. However, the process has encountered strong resistance. Authority to determine the means, but not ends, was devolved…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Bureaucracy
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1900
The Volume 1 Commissioner of Education's introduction discusses school and college enrollment and presents state common-school statistics on enrollment, average daily attendance, teachers and salaries, revenues and expenditures, and expenditures in Southern states by race. Report chapters address education in Great Britain and Ireland,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Statistical Data, Public Schools, Attendance
