Edith Jayne is currently Coordinator for Education Management at the College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth. Her article presents evidence from a variety of sources of some recent managerial experiences and training of primary-school deputy headteachers in one West Country county. She suggests that training of deputies may be too important to leave just to the heads and governors of the schools in which they work.
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