Schools in England and Wales
are currently faced with the
implementation of a plethora of
change. On the basis of recent
exploratory research the author, a
lecturer in the National Development
Centre for Educational Management
and Policy at the University of Bristol,
proposes a model of flexible planning
for the management of multiple
innovations. Such an approach, he
suggests, can help schools to cope
with an increasingly turbulent
environment in a way in which a
procedure which over-relies upon the
production of annual development
plans may not.
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