Management in Education

This special edition of Management in Education reports on the proceedings of the BEMAS annual conference held at the University of Warwick in September 1998. The chair of the conference organising committee reports on the keynote presentations and a selection of papers then follow. Further papers may be included in later editions of MiE as appropriate.

This article draws upon the outcomes from an on-going study of governance and management issues in small primary schools in three LEAs.

Among all of the new school reforms, the changing attitude to parents is in danger of going unnoticed because its implementation is diffuse and potentially unstructured. How is the national context changing in the field of home-school relations ?

This article continues the work relating to headteachers' perceptions about the HEADLAMP programme begun with Desmond Rutherford at the University of Birmingham, part of which was reported at the 1997 BEMAS Conference (Gunraj and Rutherford, 1998).