`This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain? - School Leadership & Management`There are few books of which one can say ?all secondary teachers and governors should read this book? but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be app