Identify and Critically Examine Some of the Main Contemporary Issues and Challenges Facing Secondary School Leaders in China

Abstract

This study is about issues and challenges of secondary school leaders are facing in China. It is seen as presenting the following features: lack of efficient funds in a secondary education which has become the sector of rapid growth with a decentralization of the Ministry of Education administration; run-off of high quality teachers in a competitive market economy; lower quality of teaching and learning between dilemmas of the traditional exam--oriented education and the new quality-oriented education that is being implemented as the Programme on Quality Education in the New Century which aims at developing quality of education. It is also seen as presenting the strategies in educational managements for principals as means to alleviate the problems in Chinese secondary schools.