Question: when is a headteacher not a headteacher?
Answer: when they’re a Principal, Executive Principal, Executive Headteacher, Associate Principal, Head of School or a Headteacher Designate.
As with many aspects of our education system, things just aren’t that straight-forward anymore. Without going into the semantics of what the specific responsibilities of the aforementioned school leader job titles might be, what constitutes being a headteacher is now a very complicated business indeed.
And “business” is the key word here, because it is the privatisation of our education system through academisation that has had the greatest influence in shaping new ways in which headteacher roles have evolved.
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