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School systems in many countries appear to have undergone a process of decentralisation in their administrative functions. Closer inspection, however, reveals that this has been linked with a tightening of central control in some areas. This paper will examine the role, in this process, played by the use of information technology in education management. It will use a discussion of how school systems in Victoria, Australia and Ontario, Canada have handled both decentralisation and the introduction of school management information systems to suggest that this introduction has led to a tighter coupling between schools and central education authorities, and within schools themselves.
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Tatnall, A., Pitman, A. (2002). Issues of decentralisation and central control in educational management. In: Passey, D., Kendall, M. (eds) TelE-Learning. IFIP WCC TC3 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 102. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35615-0_32
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