There will be little disagreement with the view that the effective management and administration of educational systems is of crucial importance if education is to make a sustained contribution to national development in member countries of the Commonwealth. This is all the more critical as the demand for educational services grows against a background of declining expenditure on education, the slowing down of educational expansion and the harsh economic realities of the present decade. In this context, the need to improve the efficiency of educational management and its capacity to deliver relevant and quality education has assumed considerable urgency.