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Both men tell the story with the relish of those who have placed a winning bet. For Jack Crow, a physicist and newly hired Florida State University professor, it was [...]

For 10 years, Valencia Community College's extremely vocal president has run his institution like a business. So what's the bottom line? Funding is down, but profits are up, employee morale [...]

Nottingham University is the site of an experiment in performance related pay that could have profound consequences for the life of academics. Stephen Overell reports Since becoming the country's youngest [...]

The Association of College (AoC) has introduced the Parliament and College Exchange Scheme (PACES) that tries to give the colleges heads and politicians practical experience of the challenges each job brings and improve ways of getting their message across. Principals discuss on college issues such as renewal of buildings and infrastructure, closure of funding gap betweens schools and colleges, and rational local planning with their respective member of parliaments.

A chief inspector for adult learning describes the way in which education organizations can be improvised with the help of proper management and efficient principal. He describes the inspectors' role in improving the organizations for a better tomorrow.

The author sympathizes with the modern college principal, suggesting that the pressures and frustrations of heading a further education institution often isolate him from the rest of the academic world. In addition, college principals face unrealistic expectations from the Government and the public.

George F. Babbit, that disturbing creation of novelist Sinclair Lewis, never quite knew what to make of academic types. Babbit was pure business. He loved hustle on the job, ample [...]