July 2016

Questioning the scholarly discussion around decentralization in Turkish education system

From the beginning of Turkish Republic till date, Turkish Education System (TES) has been steered by a handful of politicians and civil servants, who enjoy maximum centralized authority. Over the years, therefore, centralized management has repeatedly been blamed for the deadlocks hampering progress in the TES. Turkish scholars often seem to find intellectual shelter in extolling decentralization, supposedly the exact...

Author(s): Soner Onder Yildiz

July 2016

Enhancing access to and quality of basic education through head teachers’ leadership functions

Basic education is the fundamental requirement for idiosyncratic and societal development. The individual child needs to have access to it and acquire it qualitatively. The sum total of all the knowledge attitude, skills and competences that the Nigerian child today acquires have been declared to be on the decline. Every stakeholder: teacher, pupil, community and government / proprietor have its own blame to share....

Author(s): Oni, J. O., Jegede, A. A, Osisami, R. A., Illo, C. O., Lawal, R. O., Fabinu, F. A.