Ron Glatter

Ron Glatter is Emeritus Professor of Educational Administration and Management at the U.K.’s Open University, where he was a Professor for many years. Before that he was Reader in Educational Administration at the Institute of Education, University of London. He was the founding Secretary of what is now called the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS), later became its national Chair and is now an Honorary Vice-President. He was given the BELMAS Distinguished Service Award in 2007.

He has been involved in a variety of international activities. For example in the 1980s he was UK Co-ordinator of the OECD’s International School Improvement Project and in 2007 he was the opening keynote speaker at the European Union Presidency Conference on ‘Schools facing up to new challenges’ in Lisbon. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Education, University of London and a trustee of the Advisory Centre for Education (ACE), the Research and Information on State Education Trust (RISE) and the Public Law Project (PLP). He has been a governor of two secondary schools (one as Chair), a primary school, a college of further education and three higher education institutions.

Some recent publications

‘Joining up the dots: academies and system coherence’ in H. M. Gunter (ed.), The State and Education Policy: the Academies Programme’. London: Continuum, 2011.

‘Changing organisational structures: will we ever learn?’, Education Review, 23(1), Winter 2010.

‘Let’s look at academies systemically’, Management in Education, 23(3), 104-7, 2009.

‘Wisdom and bus schedules: developing school leadership’, School Leadership and Management, 29(3), 225-37, 2009.

‘Memorandum’ in House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee, Diversity of School Provision: oral and written evidence. London: The Stationery Office, 2009.

‘Organization and Leadership in Education: changing direction’ in D. Johnson and R. Maclean (eds.), Teaching: Professionalization, Development and Leadership. Festschrift for Professor Eric Hoyle. Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

‘Schools and school systems facing complexity: organisational challenges’ in General Inspectorate of Education (eds.), Schools facing up to new challenges. Lisbon: Ministry of Education, 2008. (Proceedings of European Union Presidency conference, November 2007)

Of Leadership, management and wisdom: a brief synthesis of selected reports and documents on leadership development, Nottingham, National College for School Leadership, www.nationalcollege.org.uk 2008

Diversity and Collaboration? Diversity Pathfinders evaluation, final report (with F. Castle, J. Evans, R. Levacic and P. A. Woods), Nottingham, DfES Publications, 2007.

Varieties of Shared Headship: a preliminary exploration (with J.A. Harvey), Nottingham: National College for School Leadership, www.nationalcollege.org.uk 2006.

‘Leadership and organization in education: time for a re-orientation?’ School Leadership and Management, 26(1), 2006, 69-83.