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Amanda Heffernan is a senior lecturer in educational leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. A former school principal, Amanda’s research focuses on the day-to-day work of school leaders, their careers, and their identities. She is particularly interested in issues associated with attraction, support and retention of leaders within the profession.
In an increasingly fragmented and competitive education system, recruiting the ‘best’ school leaders is based on fabricated notions of leadership. A recent job advert earned derision for being...
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