Managing External Relations in Schools and Colleges: International Dimensions(Centre for Educational Leadership and Management)

`I was pleased to find that the work lived up to its title and covered both schools and college issues with equal thoroughness. This is a very readable, stimulating and valuable publication' - Mentoring & Tutoring This book explores all the major aspects of managing external relations in schools of all phases, as well as in colleges. The authors use empirical research evidence to analyze how schools and colleges can manage external relations to achieve productive and supportive relationships with their communities. They explore how a responsive philosophy and appropriate marketing can be adopted in order to ensure continuous development.

Table of Contents:
Preface - Jacky Lumby and Nick Foskett PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXT The Vanishing Boundaries - Tony Bush The Importance of Effective External Relations Accountability in Education Systems - David Scott Centralizing and Decentralizing Pressures Strategy, External Relations and Marketing - Nick Foskett Partnership, Alliances and Competition - Valerie Hall Defining the Field PART TWO: RELATING TO STAKEHOLDERS Schools and the State - Keith Foreman The State and Colleges - Jane Hemsley-Brown Working with Governors - Peter Earley and Michael Creese A Bridge to the Community? Managing Relationships Between Schools and Parents - David Middlewood Colleges and Customers - Peter Davies Collaboration Between Schools - Margaret Preedy Working with Employers and Business - Marianne Coleman PART THREE: A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO EXTERNAL RELATIONS Finding Your Place - Steve Waring Sensing the External Environment Achieving Responsiveness - Jacky Lumby Communicating the Organization - Nick Foskett and Jane Hemsley-Brown

About the Author :
Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society. Nick Foskett - University of Southampton.

Review :
`I was pleased to find that the work lived up to its title and covered both schools and college issues with equal thoroughness. This is a very readable, stimulating and valuable publication′ - Mentoring & Tutoring