Principals’ Responses to Incorporation: A Window on their Culture

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Drawing upon the narrative accounts provided by fifteen college principals in England and Wales this paper looks into the ways in which incorporation has changed the culture of further education colleges. Principals’ accounts reveal their views on how the sector has changed and identify a number of concerns including how the adoption of a market driven approach to the provision of further education now shapes their work. Data is presented and discussed on how principals experienced the process of incorporation, its impact on relationships with schools, other colleges and LEAs and on how colleges were to be viewed as businesses. It is suggested that since colleges are now widely perceived as independent businesses there is a need to reassess the understanding of business practice as applied to the college setting.

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