Leadership for Quality and Accountability in Education

What is the role of leadership in developing strategies that enhance learning outcomes? Leadership for Quality and Accountability in Education addresses the interconnected issues of quality and accountability in the education system and provides a coherent framework within which these issues can be analysed. The authors outline the significance of promoting quality in all educational establishments and go on to discuss: why quality and accountability have become so essential to the framework of leadership in education; and how quality and accountability have been utilised on a national and international scale and what the defining charcteristics of these terms are

The book will appeal to educational leaders and managers, advisors and inspectors, and academic researchers. It will also be of particular relevance to Masters and doctoral degree students specialising in school leadership and management.

Mark Brundrett is Professor of Educational Research in the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Christopher Rhodes is Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.