... of mobility may not be mutually exclusive, with aspects of both occurring within a selection system to varying degrees (Ng et al., 2005). Applied to principal recruitment, sponsored mobility occurs when “sponsors” – often district leaders – selectively recruit some educators to pursue leadership...

...Allan Walker; Paula Kwan Purpose The purpose of this article is to report a study of the strategies members of principal selection panels use to select the best candidate for a principal position. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on both qualitative and quantitative data...

...: Despite the importance of the principalship, the means by which most principals in developing countries like Kenya are trained, selected, inducted and in‐serviced are ill‐suited to the development of effective and efficient school managers (Kitavi and van der Westhuizen, 1997 , p. 251). Africa...

...Peter Watkins This article discusses the devolution of educational administration in Victoria from the perspective of the role and selection of principals in such a devolved system. Drawing on such writers as Dewey and Giddens the article presents the case why, in a political democracy, we should...