EYD 521 - Education and Administrative Law

The purpose of the course is to provide the post-graduate student with the foundational knowledge of education and administrative law in order to serve as an effective head teacher and educational leader in Ministry of National Education.

Education and Administrative Law is a vital subject for the education administrators. An understanding of the role which it plays is essential to school directors. Head teachers frequently come into contact with regulatory agencies whose special procedures derive from administrative law. Dealings with internal and international agencies (including the European Union) are often governed by administrative law. Public law expertise opens the way to good careers in government service. The course aims to reflect the wider dimensions of education and administrative law, stressing links with public administration, virtue and merit. This course emphasises the functions of law in the education and administrative process. It also aims to show how the right to education in the 1982 Constitution and in the European Convention on Human Rights has influenced our system of administrative law. This course looks at the way in which changed systems of governance, especially the rapid growth of regulatory agencies, can be reflected in and controlled by traditional rules of administrative law. We consider alternative dispute resolution, including the Ombudsman Institution. In addition to compulsory essays there are opportunities for presentation of papers.