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Effective leadership is a crucial factor to foster the use of ICT in schools. This was one of the outcomes of a recent EUN’s Policy Innovation Committee meeting in Brussels. However, the concept of leadership has a different meaning depending on the countries. This thematic dossier endeavours to profile European education leaders whether they are head teachers, from the inspectorate or members of the teaching staff.

Differences are strongly influenced by organisational or cultural factors. School heads can for instance be of very different professional background, from civil-servant appointed by the government to manager hired by a board. This of course has strong effects on the style of management within the school environment. [download PDF]

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May 2005 I Mike Briscoe/Philippa Lee Support for Strategic Leadership of ICT – an English Model Leadership at all levels is critical to the successful use of ICT to support learning ambitions. This assertion has been central to the drive in England to improve leadership skills in order to use ICT more effectively to raise standards in learning and teaching. How crucial is leadership... Full article		25 August 2005 I Alan McCluskey Exploring leadership in education European Schoolnet’s Policy Innovation Committee (PIC) brings together experts from ministries and agencies across Europe working on the integration of ICT in education. Meeting three times a year, the PIC explores groundbreaking themes and topics of direct interest to its... Full article

18 August 2005 I John Anderson, Department of Education & Byron Evans, Regional Training Unit School Leadership in Northern Ireland School head-teachers (we commonly use the term ‘school principal’) have a demanding job which ranges across strategic, pedagogic, budgetary, management and administrative roles. All principals are responsible for the delivery of the curriculum; some 40... Full article		16 August 2005 I Anja Balanskat & Paul Gerhard Head teachers’ professional profile and roles across Europe Leadership issues are a major concern in several countries. Those countries also expressed the need for discussion between peers. An EUN Policy Innovation Committee (PIC) meeting was organised on 17 May 2005 about the subject to enable the exchange of ideas and experience in the... Full article

10 August 2005 I Peter Karlberg Competence development – ICT for school leaders in Sweden School leaders [1] in Sweden have a large responsibility. They are appointed by the municipality [2] as both the administrative director and pedagogical leader of the school. It is the school leader that is in charge when it comes to increasing the level of goal fulfilment and improving... Full article		16 June 2005 I Alan McCluskey Leadership, information gathering and the future – What if we’ve got it wrong? Decision-makers and information needs In thinking about the relationship between decision-makers and information gathering, when it comes to education, we commonly imagine the decisions in the hands of a select group of people with very specific needs in terms of information... Full article

August 2004 I Alan McCluskey Leading in complex situations Moral purpose The choice of what is right and wrong is a central issue in organisational decision-making and hence in leadership. The underlying question is that of the values that dictate the choice. Fullan talks of "moral purpose", but he is cautious not to be too explicit... Full article		10 August 2005 I Bert Jaap van Oel School leaders online: portraits of school leadership and ICT in the Netherlands Already some time ago the decision was made in the Netherlands to not only have an annual quantitative survey on ICT, but also to make qualitative studies of good practices. The decision led to a large series of school portraits. These portraits described what schools achieved when... Full article

July 2005 I Anne Gilleran European School Leadership Network (ESLN) School Leadership in a European context raises many vital issues, as populations become more migratory and the emergence of the European citizen becomes a reality. School leaders - as is widely acknowledged by authors such as Fullan and Senge - are vital to the quality of the processes... Full article