International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 11 Issue 6

Strategic planning in higher education athletic departments

Athanasios Kriemadis

The primary purposes of this study were: to determine the extent to which the strategic planning process was being used in NCAA Division I‐A athletic departments; to identify the…

Strategy, autonomy, planning mode and effectiveness: a contingency study of business schools

David M. Brock

The aim of this project was to investigate whether combinations of strategies, planning modes and levels of autonomy are associated with superior college effectiveness relative to…

The Centre for Professional Development at the University of Auckland: towards creating networks of moral obligations

Reynold J.S. Macpherson

Addresses briefly five complex issues in higher education: professional development spanning all categories of staff; the role of a centre of professional development (CPD) in…

The management of development planning in international schools

P.M.C. Leggate, J.J. Thompson

Due to increasing interest in school development planning, improvement and effectiveness, more schools are gaining greater control over their own school management. Argues that…

A re‐engineering framework for total home‐school partnership

Wai Ming Tam, Yin Cheong Cheng, Wing Ming Cheung

Aims to develop a framework that can provide a total conception of home‐school partnership and can be used to re‐engineer the existing superficial and fragmentary practice of…

Reassessing resource allocation strategies in higher education: methods for analysis

Geraldine Clarke

Outlines the imperative of higher education organizations to remain in the forefront of strategic planning thinking. They are the breeding ground for innovative approaches to…