Ownership and management of schools research

This case study was part of a desk-based rapid review of literature, providing an overview of the teacher remuneration system in Sierra Leone.

This case study, which was undertaken as a desk-based rapid review of recent publicly available English-language literature (academic and grey), provides an overview of the teacher remuneration system in Afghanistan, with particular attention paid to the institutional systems, or ‘cogs’, which work together to enable teachers to be paid adequately and on time.

This report argues that policy makers need to have a dual focus - not only on increasing national and international resources for teacher salaries, but also on supporting teacher salary systems and the individual parts within them to ensure that resources reach their intended destination.

This report reviews the literature on board chairs to inform all those involved in school governing in England about the responsibility, the role and the knowledge, the capabilities and characteristics required of the chair of the school governing body.

This project aimed to examine whether or not choice and competition exist in the Malaysian system, to describe models that utilise market competition, and to explore how choice and competition can be strengthened.

This paper seeks to examine how policy makers and providers operate successfully within the context of supply-side reforms.

This perspective piece is aimed at those with an interest in the development of national financial capability strategies and those who are developing or implementing financial capability programmes.

The project analysed the relationship between primary and secondary school governing and school performance and the way this relationship was influenced by the socio-economic setting.

This report explored the introduction of the pre-16 Pupil Premium for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

This report investigates the factors that lie behind the formation of educational policy.

This report examines the extent to which social enterprise is used in schools to deliver extended services.

This policy outlook outlines seven ways that the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative needs to evolve so that it can more effectively and consistently address the education needs of fragile and conflict-affected states.