Second-level schools crying out for leaders [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 16 September 2011
The system by which second-level principals are appointed is defective and needs urgent reform. We need leaders, not people motivated by money, writes Pat O’Mahony
SCHOOLS face enormous challenges in cultivating a citizenry capable of responding to the challenges of modern living and to be able to deliver the outcomes demanded of them they must be well-led and managed.
In Ireland, however, school leadership is in the midst of a deepening malaise that demands radical surgery.
The players in post-primary education (principals, deputy principals, teachers, board of management members and students) feel disempowered. Everybody owns second-level education (the media, IBEC and even the ubiquitous professor Ed Walsh) except those most intimately involved with it.
