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标题：Opinions and Perceptions of Head Teachers (HTs) towards Devolution in Education in Pakistan
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作者：Ayaz Muhammad Khan ; Munawar S. Mirza
期刊名称：Journal of Elementary Education
印刷版ISSN：1991-8100
电子版ISSN：2227-1090
出版年度：2012
卷号：22
期号：2
页码：13-32
出版社：University of the Punjab
摘要：Devolution Plan 2000 was promulgated in all provinces of Pakistan in the year 2001 through Provincial Local Government Ordinance and the purpose was to devolve political, administrative and financial powers from provincial governments to district governments. Education at elementary and secondary level was initially controlled by provincial government and with devolution of powers it filtered down to district governments. Head teachers of the high school are now more accountable to district governments which controlled most of the academic, administrative and financial matters of the school. This study explored two aspects in this regard. On one hand, it explored the current source of powers in public sector schools and on the other hand, it discovered the extent to which they wish academic, administrative and financial powers to be devolved in future. Out of 387 of the total head teachers 341 responded to the questionnaire. The results of the study showed that approximately 80 % of the HTs feel authorized to manage the academic matters. Nearly 60 % of the HTs think that they have powers from some to a large extent in the administrative matters and more than half, 53.70 %, feel to have control over the financial matters to some extent to ever more. Besides, 1/4 of the total HTs stated having no role in financial matters. Similarly, overall opinion of HTs regarding power center of various academic, administrative and financial matters of the schools showed that 62% of the HTs wanted power center regarding academic matters to be within school.
关键词：decentralization; devolution in education; school leadership; academic; administrative and financial matters