Second-level schools crying out for leaders

The system by which second-level principals are appointed is defective and needs urgent reform. We need leaders, not people motivated by money, writes Pat O’Mahony

SCHOOLS face enormous challenges in cultivating a citizenry capable of responding to the challenges of modern living and to be able to deliver the outcomes demanded of them they must be well-led and managed.

In Ireland, however, school leadership is in the midst of a deepening malaise that demands radical surgery.