Managing Finance and Resources in Education

Marianne Coleman is Reader Emerita in Educational Leadership at University College London, Institute of Education. Before a career in higher education at the University of Leicester and the Institute of Education she was a secondary school teacher and an advisory teacher in an LEA. Now retired, she continues to research and write focusing on her interest in gender and leadership and wider issues of diversity and social justice. She has recently co-authored a book on ageing and is a trustee of the Nurture Group Network, an educational charity which supports children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Dr Lesley Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the UK's The Open University (OU). Her current responsibilities include chairing the only compulsory module in the Masters in Education programme, supervising and examining doctoral students and leading the educational leadership and management academic area within the Doctorate in Education (EdD) programme. Additionally, Lesley is involved in various research activities. In addition to the DelPHE project, current projects include the relationship between leadership and social inclusion and access to and other issues connected with higher level study by prisoners

PART ONE: A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Linking Resources and Learning Outcomes - Rosalind Leva[accent]ci[accent]c Local Management and Learning Outcomes - Brian J Caldwell Mapping the Links in Three Generations of International Research The Move towards Entrepreneurialism - Lesley Anderson Financing School-Based Education in England - Anne West et al Principles and Problems Funding Learning in Further Education - Jacky Lumby PART TWO: WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE Management Styles - Tony Bush Impact on Finance and Resources Financial Management and Strategic Planning - Derek Glover Budgeting in Schools - Kevin McAleese The Role of the Bursar - Fergus O'Sullivan, Angela Thody and Elizabeth Wood Cost Analysis in Education - Tim Simkins The Management of Staff - Les Bell Some Issues of Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness Managing Information as a Resource - Ed Baines Management of Buildings and Space - Marianne Coleman and Ann R J Briggs

`The book provides an excellent wide and stimulating set of readings and would be useful to anyone taking forward Unit 3 or the Accelerated Route of SQH' - SQH Newsletter `This is a useful addition to the literature on finance and resource management in education.... Those whose work involves managing resources and finance in schools and colleges will find this a useful or even indispensable addition to their bookshelves, whether they are heads, principals or middle managers' - Mentoring & Tutoring "This is a useful addition to the literature on finance and resource management in education. Those whose work involves managing resources and finance in schools (especially) and colleges will find this a useful or even indispensable addition to their bookshelves." -- Edwin Smith, Teaching Fellow * Early Years *