Bureaucracy and red tape: the job of a school principal?

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To collapse under the files, it is also that bureaucracy. Pixabay / CC 0 / fulopszokemariann

By: Céline Guillaume

More and more, national education, like other public services, is won over by managerial and bureaucratic management.

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This is also true for principals who must implement ministry policies, but also post results. Unlike their college counterparts, these principals are overwhelmed with administrative tasks without the help of a secretary or a senior education adviser. The suicide of a nursery school principal in Pantin has revived the debate. So how do you find the time to lead a team when all the time available is devoted to administrative work? Is France a bureaucratic exception? How do other school systems protect themselves from red tape?

With:
- Alain Bouvier , former rector, professor emeritus of the University of Poitiers, associate professor at the University of Sherbrooke, editor-in-chief of the Revue internationale d'analyse de Sèvres, author of Iconoclastic Propos on the French education system (Berger Levrault ) , and co author of the Dictionary of Mathematics (PUF)
- François Robert , expert and education consultant, specialist in Africa.

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