Radical Administrative Reforms in New Zealand Education: The Implications of the Picot Report for Institutional Managers

Abstract

Major political intervention into the administration of education in New Zealand sought to encourage responsiveness as a norm of professional, administrative and organisational practices in a wider context of social and economic reform. The author was engaged for six months as a policy analyst by the New Zealand Government and that experience is drawn on to summarise the background and nature of the intervention; the Picot proposals to be implemented are set out and the expected performance of institutional managers is identified.

Citation

Macpherson, R.J.S. (1989), "Radical Administrative Reforms in New Zealand Education: The Implications of the Picot Report for Institutional Managers", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 27 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578238910132697