Administrator, educationist, personnel manager, magistrate and public relations expert: these are some of the parts the head teacher of a comprehensive school may be called upon to play during the course of an average school week. Do we ask too much of headmasters and headmistresses? Are the right people chosen for the job? Are they given adequate training for the tasks they are called upon to perform?
Brian Groombridge examines these and related questions and canvasses views on how our secondary schools can get the leadership they deservei Producer SALLY THOMPSON