The Executive Summary of the report on the OECD's "Improving School Leadership" project is now available - click here to download it (132Kb pdf file).

"This report is based on an OECD study of school leadership policies and practices around the world. Offering a valuable cross-country perspective, it identifies four policy levers and a range of policy options to help governments improve school leadership now and build sustainable leadership for the future."  22 countries participated in the study, each providing a paper on the current situation in their country (click here to find the reports ). The OECD project team wrote the comparative paper from these reports.

In addition, "case studies in Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Finland and the United Kingdom (England) illustrate how countries are encouraging school leaders to become system leaders and how they are developing and training new generations of school leaders to contribute to system transformation – so that every school is a good school." (Click here to find the case studies.)

The complete report is epected to become available soon - you will be able to find a link to the report on this page.