This edition focuses on
decentralisation and its
implications. In this paper, Joseph
Fenech, Senior Lecturer in the
Faculty of Education, University of
Malta, offers a portrait of the work of
four headteachers as local
administrators within Malta's highly
centralised system. He suggests that
even within such a system a level of
professional discretion remains
possible at the level of the individual
school.
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