Education levels have stagnated or slowly declined across much of the world, says Unesco
Learning outcomes for pupils in Ireland have slipped amid concern that overburdened school principals lack capacity to effectively lead teaching and learning in their schools, according to a global education report published byIt notes that minimum proficiency levels among 15 year olds in Ireland in maths fell from 85 per cent to 81 per cent, and in reading from 90 per cent to 89 per cent between 2015 and 2023.
“More research is needed to disentangle the potential role that issues such as increased diversity, the distracting impact of technology, changes in home environments and even growing levels of mathematics anxiety may have played,” the report says. Research indicates that leadership accounts for over a quarter of the variation in school performance, emphasising the urgent need to invest in leaders at all levels.
“We’re not empowering our leaders to help take education where it needs to be. Four in ten countries do not even give university leaders the ability to take academic and organisational decisions by law”The report notes that school leaders across many countries feel they are often expected to do too much with too little.
The report says many do not have enough time to lead teaching and learning and feel burdened by increasing administrative demands. It also highlights the need for principals to be effectively trained to manage the task of leading schools. It notes there are no national laws, policies, strategies or binding frameworks in Ireland providing for training for school principals before taking up position, following their appointment or on continuous training when in service.
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