Private High School Leadership System

The leading system of a school is the core of its institution. It's very important to ensure orientation and improve the quality and the efficiency of schools. Besides, it will play a decisive role in promoting the development of schools in a healthy, sequential and efficient way. In 1990s,along with the development of the private education, the private education in China is now going up to a stage where the education is socialized,the main body of investing and schooling are varied. As a result, the leading system of some private schools also becomes various. Except for three main leading forms, the Principal Responsibility System Led by the Directorate; the Principal Responsibility System Led by the Entrepreneur; the Substantive Principal Responsibility System, there are other forms, such as Principal Responsibility System Led by Party Committee, Principal Responsibility System base on Staff representatives, the system of collective decision-making by school council meeting and Division of responsibilities presided by the principle and so on. Since the 21st century, as the rapid development of private high schools, the state emphasizes more on the criterion of them. And the leading system of them is becoming riper. The Principal Responsibility System Led by the Directorate has become the main form. The directorate system has now found its way of being developed, standardized and perfected.Based on the above analysis on the leadership systems of Chinese private high schools, we take the A private high school as a case, and try to find out and analyze the problems that exist in the leadership systems of Chinese private high schools. According to the practical survey and analysis, we have found four or more main problems:the leadership systems are not integrated; Organizers and managers are syncretic; Leaders of the schools are familistic; the decision-making systems of leaders are faulty and the supervising systems of power are absent etc. In order to make Chinese private high schools develop in a durative way, urgent measures should be taken without any delay to build the leading institution and the systems. On one hand, directorate should be founded and perfected, and sequentially be accelerated to be diversified, specialized and serviceable; On the other hand, we should perfect the Implementing System of the leadership and establish Parents Representative Committee, which should be taken as a independent supervising system of the leadership. Moreover, we'd better take the Principal Responsibility System Led by the Director as the core to be built up:Firstly, establish and perfect the Principal Responsibility System Led by the Director; Secondly, establish and perfect the Decision-making System of the Directorate; Thirdly, establish and perfect the Power-Supervising System; Meanwhile, an independent security system of the authority and responsibility must be formed for the principal.