Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Welcome to the CCEAM Website
Professor Bill Walker and a small group of leaders of educational administration teaching in universities founded the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) in 1970 across the Commonwealth. CCEAM is an international organisation linking professionals who manage educational institutions and/or teach or research in educational administration.
CCEAM has established and supports educational administration as a university study. It aims to improve school leadership and management, to encourage the establishment of educational administration societies and fosters links among members through publications and conferences. Board members organise courses and teach in different Commonwealth countries. Fellowships are awarded on nomination of national associations. CCEAM provides consultancy services to educational institutions. CCEAM is represented at Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings and Education Ministers meetings, and also presents CCEAM members' papers at national symposia and conferences.
As president of the CCEAM, I
am really looking forward to collaborating with each and every
one of you on various issues. I am keen on finding ways in which we can
all work together in order to advance Educational Leadership, Administration
and Management not just around the Commonwealth but also around the world.
Indeed, I would like to take this opportunity to inform everybody that
the following serve as guidelines and strong priorities during my presidency
(2004-2008):
1. To provide every support
possible to all our affiliates, but provide extra support and care for
affiliates currently operational in the African Continent as well as to
establish new affiliates around the African region.
2. Ensure the continuity of the various Caribbean and Pacific Islands
initiatives.
3. Take every step possible to ensure the continued publication of our
esteemed journal, the International Studies in Educational Administration,
as well as the improvement in the journal’s delivery to our members,
a service they so greatly deserve. Further, we will make sure that the
newsletter, Managing Education Matters, will be delivered to all our members
either in printed or electronic form in a timely manner.
4. With the assistance of a relevant committee on fundraising, we will
make concerted efforts in trying to acquire funds from other sources so
that we don’t have to rely solely on the Commonwealth Foundation
and on our members’ fees.
5. Further, I will make it a point to work very closely with the Commonwealth
Foundation and its current leadership. It is to everybody’s benefit
to seek to hear their views and at the same time to ask to be heard as
well, on a regular basis.
Petros Pashiardis
CCEAM President