Dr Clive Dimmock is a Senior
Lecturer at the Graduate School
of Education of The University of
Western Australia. Before that he
worked for many years at University
College, Cardiff. In this paper he
stresses that the quality of a school is
best judged by the quality of the
teaching and learning which takes
place within it and not by the quality
of its organisation and management.
Nevertheless, as Dimmock argues,
there is mounting evidence that the
two may be related and that it may
now be possible to identify with some
confidence the structural
characteristics of schools which
provide effective teaching and
learning opportunities for all
students.
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